Lack of affective priming indicates attitude-behaviour discrepancy for COVID-19 affiliated words.

ABSTRACT: The ongoing novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in the enforcement of national public health safety measures including precautionary behaviours such as border closures, movement restrictions, total or partial lockdowns, social distancing, and face mask mandates in order to reduce the spread of this disease. The current study uses affective priming, an indirect behavioural measure of implicit attitude, to evaluate COVID-19 attitudes. Explicitly, participants rated their overall risk perception associated with contracting COVID-19 significantly lower compared to their perception of necessary precautions and overall adherence to public health measures. During baseline trials, participants explicitly rated COVID-19 affiliated words as unpleasant, similar to traditional unpleasan

SUBMITTER: Moro SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8578603 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature