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In this paper we report results from an online study conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (May 2020). The study examined a range of social and behavioural responses by youth from different ethnic backgrounds and across 63 cities (N = 569). More specifically, the study focused on investigating the relationship between threat perceptions, public health behaviours, stress and social cohesion. As expected, results indicate that higher perceptions of threat were related to higher compliance to safety and health measures despite extremely extremely low levels of political trust. Surprisingly, participants reported relatively low levels of stress despite high social isolation and physical restrictions. These results could partially be explained by an increased level of family interactions. Furthermore, participants reported relatively high levels of social cohesion and common-ingroup identification in a usually segregated and conflict-ridden context.

This paper explores the effect of culture on the emotions invoked when different web sites are viewed and the perception that website's trustworthiness. Traditionally, researchers in the human computer interaction (HCI) field have focused on task-orientated usability, cmmitted to improving efficiency. Eventually the importance of other aspects of technology use was recognized, one of which were emotions, all grouped under the umbrella term - user experience. Numerous studies show that culture has an influence on the user's perception of usability and interface preferences. Seeing this relationship between culture and usabilty, one between culture and user experience remains to be explored. A survey was conducted as part of the methodology, where two cultural groups, Bosnians and the Chineese participated, with the aim of capturing differences and similarities, in the perceptions of different classes of websites. The different types used were flash-based, text-dominated, combination of text and graphics, graphic-intensive and virtual reality. Two samples were culture-specific and the rest either Australian or American. The study reveals similarities and differences beteen the two cultural groups examined. Each cultural group rendered both positive and negative emotional responces from the survey and their perceptions of the trustworthiness also varied.