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SUBMITTER: Vaughn LA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7717948 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vaughn Leigh Ann LA Garvey Chase A CA Chalachan Rachael D RD
Frontiers in psychology 20201119
Prevention focus is a self-regulatory orientation that serves the need for security, and promotion focus is a self-regulatory orientation that serves the need for growth. From mid-March to early April 2020, did people judge prevention focus to be more useful than promotion focus for responding to COVID-19? Our study tested and showed support for this hypothesis with 401 American and Canadian participants, who we sampled in 100-person waves on the first 4 Thursdays of the pandemic. For this study ...[more]