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Abstract� A new strain of corona virus, also known as COVID-19, was confirmed in the Wuhan city of China in December 2019 and has spread around 188 countries around the globe causing the WHO to declare it as a global pandemic. This research is an attempt to find out how psychological factors affects to the changes in human behaviour during this COVID-19 lockdown. Three prominent psychological factors were considered. The three prominent psychological factors are motivation, perception and attitude. A structured questionnaire consisting of 18 questions (including demographic data) was prepared and 388 responses were recorded. The data collected from this questionnaire was reviewed and analyzed. Deductive approach of research was used in order to study how psychological factors affects to change in human behaviour during this lockdown. The objectives of the study was to see whether people are aware of the behavioural changes that they might experience during this lockdown. It was observed that majority of the people were aware of the behavioural changes that they may experience during this lockdown. Major behaviour changes experienced were laziness, becoming ill-tempered and anxiety. Chi square test and Mann-Whitney U test were used to find relationship between psychological factors and changes in human behaviour. Findings from this research suggests that people are unable to deal with this lockdown. There are certain coping mechanisms that people are using to better deal with this lockdown. Coping mechanisms such as doing household chore, office work, using social media and internet were majorly used by the people to deal with this lockdown. In these troubled times of an outbreak of a pandemic it is important to understand how psychological factors affects to change in human behaviour. This understanding will help us to better deal with the situation and minimizing the impact of this disease on human health.