Publications by authors named "Andy Scott"
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- The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted various aspects of human life, focusing on public health management through effective communication and behavior change strategies.
- A large dataset of 51,404 individuals from 69 countries was created for the ICSMP COVID-19 project to analyze the social and moral psychology related to public health behaviors during the early pandemic phase (April-June 2020).
- The survey included diverse questions on topics like COVID-19 beliefs, social attitudes, ideologies, health, moral beliefs, personality traits, and demographics, and provides raw and cleaned data along with survey materials and psychometric evaluations.
At the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 became a global problem. Despite all the efforts to emphasize the relevance of preventive measures, not everyone adhered to them. Thus, learning more about the characteristics determining attitudinal and behavioral responses to the pandemic is crucial to improving future interventions.
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- Atheism and agnosticism are getting more popular, but we don't really understand how our brains work differently when it comes to belief or non-belief in religion.
- In this study, researchers used brain activity measurements to find out that Non-Believers think things through more deeply, while Believers rely on gut feelings.
- The study shows that Non-Believers might view things in a more careful and thoughtful way, while Believers might be more spontaneous and intuitive in how they see the world.
Changing collective behaviour and supporting non-pharmaceutical interventions is an important component in mitigating virus transmission during a pandemic. In a large international collaboration (Study 1, N = 49,968 across 67 countries), we investigated self-reported factors associated with public health behaviours (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTerror management theory (TMT) proposes that the awareness of our eventual death is at odds with our evolved desire to live and that humans attempt to resolve this psychological conflict by investing in cultural worldviews that grant symbolic or literal immortality. The present studies examine the interplay between symbolic and literal immortality striving. Three studies show that, following a death reminder, only individuals who did not have a route to literal immortality (belief in an afterlife) increased how long they believe their culture (Canada in Studies 1 and 2, the United States in Study 3), will last by thousands of years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEconomic threat heightens conflict detection: sLORETA evidence.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci
November 2020
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- Researchers studied how worrying about money problems affects the brain, especially a part called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which helps us detect conflicts.
- They had 103 people read either a scary economic report or a stable one and then listen to different sounds to see which got more of a reaction from their brains.
- The results showed that those who read about economic threats had more brain activity in the ACC, suggesting that money worries can impact how we think and feel about ourselves and others.
Drug-hydroxypropyl methylcellulose phthalate (HPMCP) mixtures were completely dissolved in acetone, and the resulting solution was added drop-wise into HCl(aq). Resulting co-precipitates were filtered, and then dried under vacuum at 45 degrees C, -800 mbar for 24 h. Modulated differential scanning calorimetry, thermogravimetric analysis, X-ray powder diffraction and HPLC were used to detect and quantify different phases present in co-precipitates.
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