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. 2023 Feb 11;10(1):87.
doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7.

The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

Erin M Buchanan  1 Savannah C Lewis  2 Bastien Paris  3 Patrick S Forscher  4 Jeffrey M Pavlacic  5 Julie E Beshears  6 Shira Meir Drexler  7 Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe  8   9 Peter R Mallik  10 Miguel Alejandro A Silan  11 Jeremy K Miller  12 Hans IJzerman  13   14 Hannah Moshontz  15 Jennifer L Beaudry  16 Jordan W Suchow  17 Christopher R Chartier  2 Nicholas A Coles  18 MohammadHasan Sharifian  19 Anna Louise Todsen  20 Carmel A Levitan  21 Flávio Azevedo  22 Nicole Legate  23 Blake Heller  24 Alexander J Rothman  25 Charles A Dorison  26 Brian P Gill  27 Ke Wang  28 Vaughan W Rees  29 Nancy Gibbs  30 Amit Goldenberg  31 Thuy-Vy Thi Nguyen  32 James J Gross  33 Gwenaêl Kaminski  34 Claudia C von Bastian  35 Mariola Paruzel-Czachura  36   37 Farnaz Mosannenzadeh  38 Soufian Azouaghe  13   39 Alexandre Bran  40 Susana Ruiz-Fernandez  41 Anabela Caetano Santos  42   43 Niv Reggev  44 Janis H Zickfeld  45 Handan Akkas  46 Myrto Pantazi  47 Ivan Ropovik  48   49 Max Korbmacher  50 Patrícia Arriaga  51 Biljana Gjoneska  52 Lara Warmelink  53 Sara G Alves  54 Gabriel Lins de Holanda Coelho  55 Stefan Stieger  56 Vidar Schei  57 Paul H P Hanel  58 Barnabas Szaszi  59 Maksim Fedotov  60 Jan Antfolk  61 Gabriela-Mariana Marcu  62 Jana Schrötter  63 Jonas R Kunst  64 Sandra J Geiger  65 Adeyemi Adetula  13   66 Halil Emre Kocalar  67 Julita Kielińska  68 Pavol Kačmár  69 Ahmed Bokkour  70 Oscar J Galindo-Caballero  71 Ikhlas Djamai  39 Sara Johanna Pöntinen  61 Bamikole Emmanuel Agesin  72 Teodor Jernsäther  73 Anum Urooj  74 Nikolay R Rachev  75 Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm  76 Murathan Kurfalı  76 Ilse L Pit  77   78 Ranran Li  79 Sami Çoksan  80 Dmitrii Dubrov  81 Tamar Elise Paltrow  82 Gabriel Baník  83 Tatiana Korobova  84 Anna Studzinska  85 Xiaoming Jiang  86 John Jamir Benzon R Aruta  87 Jáchym Vintr  88 Faith Chiu  58   89 Lada Kaliska  90 Jana B Berkessel  91 Murat Tümer  92 Sara Morales-Izquierdo  93 Hu Chuan-Peng  94 Kevin Vezirian  13 Anna Dalla Rosa  95 Olga Bialobrzeska  96 Martin R Vasilev  97 Julia Beitner  98 Ondřej Kácha  88 Barbara Žuro  99   100 Minja Westerlund  61 Mina Nedelcheva-Datsova  75 Andrej Findor  101 Dajana Krupić  102 Marta Kowal  103 Adrian Dahl Askelund  104 Razieh Pourafshari  105 Jasna Milošević Đorđević  106 Nadya-Daniela Schmidt  107 Ekaterina Baklanova  108 Anna Szala  109 Ilya Zakharov  110 Marek A Vranka  111 Keiko Ihaya  112 Caterina Grano  113 Nicola Cellini  114 Michał Białek  103 Lisa Anton-Boicuk  115 Ilker Dalgar  116 Arca Adıgüzel  67 Jeroen P H Verharen  117 Princess Lovella G Maturan  118 Angelos P Kassianos  119 Raquel Oliveira  120 Martin Čadek  121 Vera Cubela Adoric  122 Asil Ali Özdoğru  123 Therese E Sverdrup  57 Balazs Aczel  124 Danilo Zambrano  125 Afroja Ahmed  126 Christian K Tamnes  64 Yuki Yamada  127 Leonhard Volz  128 Naoyuki Sunami  129 Lilian Suter  130 Luc Vieira  131 Agata Groyecka-Bernard  103 Julia Arhondis Kamburidis  132 Ulf-Dietrich Reips  133 Mikayel Harutyunyan  111 Gabriel Agboola Adetula  72 Tara Bulut Allred  134 Krystian Barzykowski  135 Benedict G Antazo  136 Andras N Zsido  137 Dušana Dušan Šakan  138 Wilson Cyrus-Lai  139 Lina Pernilla Ahlgren  61 Matej Hruška  140 Diego Vega  141 Efisio Manunta  142 Aviv Mokady  143 Mariagrazia Capizzi  144 Marcel Martončik  145   146 Nicolas Say  147 Katarzyna Filip  135 Roosevelt Vilar  148 Karolina Staniaszek  149 Milica Vdovic  106 Matus Adamkovic  146   150 Niklas Johannes  151 Nandor Hajdu  59 Noga Cohen  152 Clara Overkott  153 Dino Krupić  154 Barbora Hubena  155 Gustav Nilsonne  73   156   157 Giovanna Mioni  114 Claudio Singh Solorzano  113   158 Tatsunori Ishii  159 Zhang Chen  160 Elizaveta Kushnir  161 Cemre Karaarslan  162 Rafael R Ribeiro  163 Ahmed Khaoudi  70 Małgorzata Kossowska  164 Jozef Bavolar  69 Karlijn Hoyer  165 Marta Roczniewska  166   167 Alper Karababa  67 Maja Becker  142 Renan P Monteiro  168 Yoshihiko Kunisato  169 Irem Metin-Orta  170 Sylwia Adamus  135 Luca Kozma  137   171 Gabriela Czarnek  135 Artur Domurat  172 Eva Štrukelj  173 Daniela Serrato Alvarez  125 Michal Parzuchowski  174 Sébastien Massoni  175 Johanna Czamanski-Cohen  176 Ekaterina Pronizius  177 Fany Muchembled  178 Kevin van Schie  179   180   181 Aslı Saçaklı  182 Evgeniya Hristova  183 Anna O Kuzminska  184 Abdelilah Charyate  185   186 Gijsbert Bijlstra  187 Reza Afhami  188 Nadyanna M Majeed  189 Erica D Musser  190 Miroslav Sirota  191 Robert M Ross  192 Siu Kit Yeung  193 Marietta Papadatou-Pastou  194 Francesco Foroni  195 Inês A T Almeida  196 Dmitry Grigoryev  197 David M G Lewis  198 Dawn L Holford  199 Steve M J Janssen  200 Srinivasan Tatachari  201 Carlota Batres  202 Jonas K Olofsson  73 Shimrit Daches  203 Anabel Belaus  204 Gerit Pfuhl  205 Nadia Sarai Corral-Frias  206 Daniela Sousa  207 Jan Philipp Röer  208 Peder Mortvedt Isager  209 Hendrik Godbersen  41 Radoslaw B Walczak  210 Natalia Van Doren  211 Dongning Ren  165 Tripat Gill  212 Martin Voracek  177 Lisa M DeBruine  213 Michele Anne  200 Sanja Batić Očovaj  214 Andrew G Thomas  215 Alexios Arvanitis  216 Thomas Ostermann  217 Kelly Wolfe  218 Nwadiogo Chisom Arinze  66 Carsten Bundt  64 Claus Lamm  177 Robert J Calin-Jageman  219 William E Davis  220 Maria Karekla  221 Saša Zorjan  222 Lisa M Jaremka  223 Jim Uttley  35 Monika Hricova  69 Monica A Koehn  224 Natalia Kiselnikova  225 Hui Bai  226 Anthony J Krafnick  227 Busra Bahar Balci  228 Tonia Ballantyne  229 Samuel Lins  230 Zahir Vally  231 Celia Esteban-Serna  232 Kathleen Schmidt  2 Paulo Manuel L Macapagal  233   234 Paulina Szwed  235 Przemysław Marcin Zdybek  210 David Moreau  236 W Matthew Collins  237 Jennifer A Joy-Gaba  238 Iris Vilares  239 Ulrich S Tran  177 Jordane Boudesseul  240   241 Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir  242   243 Barnaby James Wyld Dixson  244 Jennifer T Perillo  245   246 Ana Ferreira  196 Erin C Westgate  247 Christopher L Aberson  248 Azuka Ikechukwu Arinze  66 Bastian Jaeger  249 Muhammad Mussaffa Butt  250 Jaime R Silva  251 Daniel Shafik Storage  252 Allison P Janak  253 William Jiménez-Leal  254 Jose A Soto  211 Agnieszka Sorokowska  255 Randy McCarthy  256 Alexa M Tullett  257 Martha Frias-Armenta  258 Matheus Fernando Felix Ribeiro  259 Andree Hartanto  189 Paul A G Forbes  115 Megan L Willis  260 María Del Carmen Tejada R  261 Adriana Julieth Olaya Torres  262 Ian D Stephen  263 David C Vaidis  40 Anabel de la Rosa-Gómez  264 Karen Yu  265 Clare A M Sutherland  266   267 Mathi Manavalan  25 Behzad Behzadnia  268 Jan Urban  269 Ernest Baskin  270 Joseph P McFall  271 Chisom Esther Ogbonnaya  66 Cynthia H Y Fu  272 Rima-Maria Rahal  273 Izuchukwu L G Ndukaihe  274 Thomas J Hostler  275 Heather Barry Kappes  243 Piotr Sorokowski  255 Meetu Khosla  276 Ljiljana B Lazarevic  277 Luis Eudave  278 Johannes K Vilsmeier  177 Elkin O Luis  279 Rafał Muda  280 Elena Agadullina  197 Rodrigo A Cárcamo  281 Crystal Reeck  282 Gulnaz Anjum  64 Mónica Camila Toro Venegas  261 Michal Misiak  283   284 Richard M Ryan  195 Nora L Nock  285 Giovanni A Travaglino  286 Michael C Mensink  287 Gilad Feldman  288 Aaron L Wichman  289 Weilun Chou  290 Ignazio Ziano  291 Martin Seehuus  292 William J Chopik  293 Franki Y H Kung  294 Joelle Carpentier  295 Leigh Ann Vaughn  296 Hongfei Du  297 Qinyu Xiao  298 Tiago J S Lima  299 Chris Noone  300 Sandersan Onie  301   302 Frederick Verbruggen  160 Theda Radtke  303 Maximilian A Primbs  38
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The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

Erin M Buchanan et al. Sci Data. .

Abstract

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing, cognitive reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific 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 here 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.

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Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Survey flow for the PSACR project. As shown in Fig. 2, participants were given one path through the study determined by the date they completed the study and randomization factors.
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
Timeline for the PSACR project in 2020. In April, only the English version of the study was available for participants. In May, Hungarian, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese were added to the study. In the next month, French, Macedonian, Swedish, Spanish, Farsi, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Urdu, Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Slovak, Arabic, Hebrew, Filipino, and Korean were launched. In July, Croatian, German, Yoruba, Armenian, Chinese, Serbian, Finnish, Romanian, Uzbek, Bengali, Slovenian, and Hebrew were included. Languages were generally launched with its dialect variants (e.g., Dutch and Dutch-Belgian).
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
The top panel includes a map of the countries/geopolitical locations from which data was collected for the PSACR project with corresponding sample size. The bottom panel includes a treemap of sample size by geopolitical region, and these values are grouped by UN subregion: Eastern Europe, Northern America, Eastern Asia, Western Europe, Southern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Europe, Latin American and the Caribbean, Western Asia, Australia and New Zealand, South-Eastern Asia, and Southern Asia (listed here largest to smallest). Cell size depicts relative sample size for each sub-region to the whole sample and within groups relative sample size.

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