Psychology Professor Leigh Ann Vaughn Coauthors Science Data Paper on Responding to COVID-19

By Leigh Ann Vaughn, March 23, 2023

A science data paper by Leigh Ann Vaughn and over 300 other researchers in 84 countries around the world has been published from the Psychological Science Accelerator COVID-19 Rapid Response project.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the efects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and afective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specifc measures for each experimental study, a general questionnaire examining health prevention behaviors and COVID-19 experience, geographical and cultural context characterization, and demographic information for each participant. Each participant started the study with the same general questions and then was randomized to complete either one longer experiment or two shorter experiments. Data were provided by 73,223 participants with varying completion rates. Participants completed the survey from 111 geopolitical regions in 44 unique languages/ dialects. The anonymized dataset described in this paper is provided in both raw and processed formats to facilitate re-use and further analyses. The dataset offers secondary analytic opportunities to explore coping, framing, and self-determination across a diverse, global sample obtained at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which can be merged with other time-sampled or geographic data.

This paper and the data set it describes are publicly available: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01811-7

Professor Vaughn and her undergraduate research team contributed to these projects. She developed the IRB proposals for Ithaca College, managed data collection here, and helped write the papers. Her research team student recruited participants, helped trouble-shoot the Ithaca College data collection procedures, and collected data for the projects.

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