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AUTHOR
Nandor Hajdu
The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
Funder: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant
Contextual factors predicting compliance behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A machine learning analysis on survey data from 16 countries.
Voluntary isolation is one of the most effective methods for individuals to help prevent the transmission of diseases such as COVID-19. Understanding why people leave their homes when advised not to do so and identifying what contextual factors predict this non-compliant behavior is essential for policymakers and public health officials. To provide insight on these factors, we collected data from 42,169 individuals across 16 countries. Participants responded to items inquiring about their socio-cultural environment, such as the adherence of fellow citizens, as well as their mental states, such as their level of loneliness and boredom. We trained random forest models to predict whether someo…
A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic
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