RAPID: Approach-Avoidance Tendencies to Pathogen-Salience as a Function of Uncertainty and Regional COVID-19 Infection Rates

RAPID：病原体显着性的回避倾向是不确定性和区域性 COVID-19 感染率的函数

• 批准号: 2049706
• 负责人: Philip Gable
• 金额: $ 5.07万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-09 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Approach; Avoidance; Tendencies; Pathogen

The growing presence of COVID-19 in the United States creates a social psychological problem of a scale never before encountered in modern times. This time-critical research project investigates how peoples’ feelings of uncertainty about the spread of COVID-19 across the United States impacts emotional and motivational behaviors to avoid the virus, even when people may be unaware of how they feel and act. Emotion-based responses are hypothesized to be amplified because of the uncertainty involved in a contagion spread. To test this hypothesis, the project develops a novel smart phone application that participants can use around the country, even when they are in physical isolation. The smart phone application creates a novel way to study the emotional impact of virus transmission as well as educate participants about their own motivations to stay healthy. This project informs and educates about the science of COVID-19 transmission and prevention to help develop interventions for this and future pandemics. This time-critical RAPID project utilizes the smart phone application to engage in immediate nationwide testing of one thousand individuals from across the country. Testing will continue for nine months so that peak and declining rates of disease are captured. The smart phone application assesses non-conscious motivational tendencies to avoid objects and people which could potentially transmit COVID-19. The research also tests how these motivational tendencies promote or hinder health-related behaviors such as handwashing and social distancing. Importantly, the project investigates regional differences of infection rates across the United States to test the influence of increasing and declining infection rates on peoples’ feelings and actions. The research and the software developed in this project will facilitate the development of future interventions aimed at reducing the emotional distress caused by the spread of deadly diseases and to increase healthy behaviors in response to them.This project is jointly funded by the Social Psychology Program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

COVID-19在美国的日益增多，造成了现代从未遇到过的社会心理问题。这个时间紧迫的研究项目调查了人们对COVID-19在美国传播的不确定感如何影响情绪和动机行为，以避免病毒，即使人们可能不知道他们的感受和行为。假设基于预防的反应被放大，因为涉及在传染蔓延的不确定性。为了验证这一假设，该项目开发了一种新颖的智能手机应用程序，参与者可以在全国各地使用，即使他们在物理隔离。该智能手机应用程序创建了一种新颖的方法来研究病毒传播对情绪的影响，并教育参与者了解自己保持健康的动机。该项目提供有关COVID-19传播和预防科学的信息和教育，以帮助制定针对这次和未来大流行的干预措施。这一时间紧迫的RAPID项目利用智能手机应用程序立即对来自全国各地的1000人进行全国性测试。测试将持续9个月，以便捕捉疾病的高峰和下降率。智能手机应用程序评估无意识的动机倾向，以避免可能传播COVID-19的物体和人。 该研究还测试了这些动机倾向如何促进或阻碍与健康相关的行为，如洗手和社交距离。重要的是，该项目调查了美国各地感染率的地区差异，以测试感染率的上升和下降对人们的感受和行动的影响。该项目的研究和开发的软件将促进未来干预措施的发展，旨在减少致命疾病传播造成的情绪困扰，并增加健康行为以应对这些疾病。该项目由社会心理学计划和刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

The longest year ever: Emotions and time perception interact to predict how frequently individuals engage in COVID-19 avoidance behaviors.

有史以来最长的一年：情绪和时间感知相互作用，可以预测个人从事 COVID-19 回避行为的频率。

• DOI: 10.1037/emo0001230
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Emotion
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Wendel, Christopher J.;Gable, Philip A.
• 通讯作者: Gable, Philip A.