Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention.

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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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serval:BIB_8C434E95B6EC
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Induced gratitude and hope, and experienced fear, but not experienced disgust, facilitate COVID-19 prevention.
Journal
Cognition & emotion
Author(s)
Russell P.S., Frackowiak M., Cohen-Chen S., Rusconi P., Fasoli F.
ISSN
1464-0600 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0269-9931
Publication state
Published
Issued date
03/2023
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
37
Number
2
Pages
196-219
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Randomized Controlled Trial ; Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Hope, gratitude, fear, and disgust may all be key to encouraging preventative action in the context of COVID-19. We pre-registered a longitudinal experiment, which involved monthly data collections from September 2020 to September 2021 and a six-month follow-up. We predicted that a hope recall task would reduce negative emotions and elicit higher intentions to engage in COVID-19 preventative behaviours. At the first time point, participants were randomly allocated to a recall task condition (gratitude, hope, or control). At each time point, we measured willingness to engage in COVID-19 preventative behaviours, as well as experienced hope, gratitude, fear, and disgust. We then conducted a separate, follow-up study in February 2022, to see if the effects replicated when COVID-19 restrictions were relaxed in the UK. In the main study, contrary to our pre-registered hypothesis, we found that a gratitude recall task elicited more willingness to engage in COVID-19 preventative behaviours in comparison to the neutral recall task. We also found that experienced gratitude, hope, and fear were positively related to preventative action, while disgust was negatively related. These results present advancement of knowledge of the role of specific emotions in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keywords
Humans, Disgust, Follow-Up Studies, Pandemics, COVID-19, Fear/psychology, Emotions, Hope, disgust, fear, gratitude, preventative behaviour
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
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