Fear of being near: Fear supersedes sociability when interacting amid a pandemic.

COVID-19 Disease avoidance Fear Sociability Social interactions

Journal

Personality and individual differences
ISSN: 0191-8869
Titre abrégé: Pers Individ Dif
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8006972

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2022
Historique:
received: 17 05 2021
revised: 03 10 2021
accepted: 14 11 2021
entrez: 11 4 2022
pubmed: 12 4 2022
medline: 12 4 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

In the COVID-19 era, physical interactions ubiquitously pose a disease threat. Using a novel online paradigm, this study tested whether under such unique circumstances, the fundamental motivation to avoid disease-related threats interacts with individual differences in sociability, such that: (i) responses to others are slowed down, particularly among sociable individuals, reflecting motivational tension; (ii) the role of sociability in predicting interaction likelihood is diminished. Participants (Israeli young adults,

Identifiants

pubmed: 35400779
doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111404
pii: S0191-8869(21)00783-2
pmc: PMC8978598
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

111404

Informations de copyright

© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

None.

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Auteurs

Ran Amram (R)

School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Inbal Ravreby (I)

School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Nitzan Trainin (N)

Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Yaara Yeshurun (Y)

School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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