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The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 Rapid-Response Dataset

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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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The Psychological Science
Accelerator’s COVID-19
rapid-response dataset
Erin M. Buchanan et al.#
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated
three large-scale psychological studies to examine the eects of loss-gain framing, cognitive
reappraisals, and autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and aective
measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specic 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 oers 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.
Background & Summary
In 2020, the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic presented enormous challenges to peoples health and well-being.
In response to this challenge, in March 2020, the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA)1 announced a call
for studies focusing on applied research to answer questions on how to reduce the negative emotional and
behavioral impacts of the pandemic, the PSA COVID-Rapid (PSACR) Project. e PSA is a global collabora-
tive network of over 1,000 members across 80+ countries/geopolitical locations that develop large, “big-team
science” projects. ree research studies were selected to pursue, paired with a general survey about health
behaviors, COVID-19 experiences, and demographic information (https://osf.io/x976j). e dataset described
here represents three studies on the psychology of message communication: Study (1) how framing aects
health communication messages using gain-versus-loss framing2; Study (2) cognitive reappraisal3; and Study (3)
how self-determination theory can inform health messaging for social distancing uptake4. Participants either
completed Loss-Gain Framing (Study 1) and Self-Determination (Study 3) (order counterbalanced), only the
Self-Determination (Study 3) or Cognitive Reappraisal (Study 2) (see Figs.1 and 2).
Loss-gain framing (Study 1). In the rst study, participants read health excerpts that framed these messages
behaviors as gains or losses, and we subsequently measured participants’ intentions to follow guidelines to prevent
COVID-19 transmission, attitudes towards COVID-19 prevention policies, propensity to seek additional infor-
mation about COVID-19, and anxiety (using both self-report and behavioral measures)2. is study was designed
to examine the role of message framing in inuencing compliance with the pandemic recommendations using
gain-versus-loss framing. e gain-framed messages in this study highlighted the usefulness of compliance with
the messages (e.g., there is so much to gain. If you practice these four steps, you can protect yourself and others),
whereas the loss-framed messages spotlighted the negative eects of ignoring the recommendations (e.g., there is
so much to lose. If you do not practice these four steps, you can endanger yourself and others)5. Research on the
#A full list of authors and their aliations appears at the end of the paper.
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impact of message framing on emotion and behavior is critical6, and previous studies suggest that loss-framing
elicits negative emotion7. is study extended previous research to measure the impact of framing on anxiety.
Summary of study ndings. Loss-framed messages (as compared to gain-framed) increased participants’
self-reported anxiety. On the contrary, there were no meaningful dierences between gain framing and loss
framing in eects on 1) behavioral intentions to follow COVID-19 prevention guidelines, (2) attitudes toward
COVID-19 prevention policies, and 3) whether participants chose to seek more information about COVID-19.
Crucially, most of these results were relatively consistent across 84 countries.
Cognitive reappraisal (Study 2). e second study focused on emotion regulation through cognitive
reappraisal3. e COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to decrease positive emotions and psychological health
and increase negative emotions810. ese emotional changes could potentially be mitigated by emotion regula-
tion strategies. Cognitive reappraisal is one such strategy that encourages changes in the way one thinks about a
situation in order to change the way one feels11, and this study specically used reconstrual and repurposing as
reappraisal methods. Previous research has shown that participants engaging in cognitive reappraisal can increase
resilience in a simple and eective manner12, especially in comparison to other emotion strategies, such as emo-
tion suppression13. Study 2 examined the eectiveness of reappraisal strategies to reduce negative emotions and
increase positive ones regarding COVID-19 situations. Moreover, we explored whether cognitive reappraisals
inuence health behavioral intentions.
Summary of study ndings. e two variations of reappraisal strategies tested in this study (reconstrual and
repurposing) both reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions related to COVID-19 situations
compared to control conditions. Neither strategy aected health behavior intentions related to stay-at-home
behaviors and hand washing behaviors. e two strategies had similar eects to one another.
Self-determination (Study 3). The third study examined motivations/intentions to participate in
social distancing using self-determination theory as a framework to design messages that either induced indi-
vidual autonomy through supportive messaging or pressured individuals through controlling messaging14,15.
Fig. 1 Survey ow 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.
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Autonomy-supportive communication styles include information on perspective-taking, the rationale for changing
behavior, and engaging an individuals autonomy of choice in a scenario16. Controlling communication styles use
shame and blame to induce a change in behavior17. In general, autonomy-supportive messages have been shown to
increase behavior change18, whereas controlling messages oen lead to behaviors that are the opposite of what was
intended19,20. Study 3 examined the eects of autonomy-supportive versus controlling messages about social dis-
tancing on the quality of motivation, feelings of deance, and behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing.
Summary of study ndings. e controlling message increased controlled motivation for social distancing, a
relatively ineective form of motivation concerning avoiding shame and social consequences, relative to the con-
trol group who received no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message decreased feelings of
deance compared with the controlling message. Unexpectedly, neither autonomy-supportive or controlling mes-
sages inuenced behavioral intentions, though existing motivations did, with autonomous motivation predicting
greater long-term intentions, and controlled motivation predicting fewer long-term intentions to social distance.
Here, we present the aggregated data from all studies and from a health behavior survey assessing demograph-
ics and COVID-19 experience and local restrictions21. ese data can be further merged with corresponding data
using time and/or location information, potentially to track responses in tandem with COVID-19 rates (https://
data.humdata.org/dataset/oxford-covid-19-government-response-tracker), vaccinations22, hospitalizations
(https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer), or other psychological variables (e.g., anxiety,
depression; https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/all-us-research-program-launches-covid-19-
research-initiatives). The dataset provides an array of untapped insights into human emotion, motivation,
persuasion, and other topics that can be unlocked through secondary analyses (e.g., regional moderator analyses).
Methods
Survey ow. e PSACR project consisted of a general survey (i.e., consisting of health behaviors, COVID-19
information, and demographics) and the three studies described above (see the survey ow in Fig.1). Data were
collected online, and participants were able to complete the study from any internet-enabled device. First, partic-
ipants were shown a landing page to select their language or regional variation of a language, with 44 languages
included as options. Participants then read an informed consent form to familiarize themselves with the general
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).
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objectives of the study and indicate their consent to participate in the study (yes/no choice). e entire study was
approved by the Institutional Review Board at Ashland University as the main research hub, and local approval
was obtained from other research labs depending on individual institution requirements.
The participants were then shown a general survey, COVID-19 experience, and demographics survey
designed by the PSACR admin team (described below). Participants were then randomly invited to complete
either (a) Cognitive Reappraisal (Study 2), or (b) both the Loss-Gain Framing (Study 1) and Self-Determination
(Study 3) studies in random order. However, a small portion of participants received only Study 3
(Self-Determination), as this study was deployed before the other two studies were ready (see Fig.2 for a time-
line of the project). Creating two survey ows (Study 1 and 3 versus Study 2) kept participant completion time
to approximately 20–30 minutes across the entire survey as Study 2 took longer to complete than Study 1 and
3. Data collection for Loss-Gain Framing (Study 1) and Self-Determination (Study 3) ended before Cognitive
Reappraisal (Study 2) for which data collection was continued to achieve the a priori determined sample size.
A timeline for the dierent PSACR studies onsets and osets is presented in Fig.2. Aer completing the stud-
ies, participants were shown a debrieng about the studies that included information about the pandemic and
World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. All translations and materials can be found at https://
osf.io/gvw56/ and at https://osf.io/s4hj2/.
Translation. e translation team consisted of one lead coordinator, two assistant coordinators, one lan-
guage specic coordinator, and translators within each language. e lead coordinator, along with the assistant
coordinators, oversaw all languages organizing and connecting information between the study teams, translation
teams, and implementation teams. e language coordinator worked with the individual translators for their
target language, and approximately 268 individuals helped achieve the translations for this study. e translation
process included three stages: forward translation, backward translation, and cultural adjustment. During for-
ward translation, at least two translators worked together to translate each study from English to each target lan-
guage. Separately, two translators then reversed this process by backward translating from each target language to
English. Between these two stages, all inconsistencies were eliminated by discussion between team members. Last,
the translated materials were sent to separate individuals for cultural adjustment. Cultural adjustment included
wording tweaks for understanding within that culture. For example, several of the educational levels were mod-
ied based on the education system in the area that generally spoke the target language (see https://osf.io/ca3ks
for a review of the translation process).
Study deployment. e study was implemented online using formr survey soware23 which enabled com-
plex randomization and study tracking during the life of the project. e study can be reproduced using the Excel
les for each language and the overall survey ow psacr-pool.json le (https://osf.io/643aw/) provided in the
formr folder in the Open Science Framework (OSF) repository. formr soware allows a researcher to import a
survey ow through.json formatted les, and the exact questions and study design can be imported using Excel
or Google Sheets les. Within each language folder, we have provided the consent form, the general survey, the
Loss-Gain Framing survey (Study 1), the Cognitive Reappraisal survey (Study 2), the Self-Determination survey
(Study 3), and the nal WHO and debrieng information. Each language setup uses the same survey ow and
therefore can be recreated using the provided.json survey ow and the relevant Excel les.
General survey. e general survey was designed to gather information about the participants’ experiences
with COVID-19 protocols and restrictions in their lives as well as demographic information. Participants rst
reported their health behaviors in response to the pandemic by indicating how many times they had le their
homes in the past week, the reasons for leaving their home, their mask usage, hand washing, and coughing/
sneezing actions. e next section covered COVID-19 restrictions and government responses, including cur-
rent restrictions, ability to manage restrictions, and trust and satisfaction in government activities. Participants
then indicated if they had been tested for COVID-19, were self-isolating for symptoms, their condence about
understanding and preventing COVID-19, and their worry over their physical and emotional well-being. e
last section of the general survey covered participant demographics (age, gender, education, geopolitical region,
nationality, state of residence for U.S. participants, and type of community), questions about how the participant
was recruited into the survey, and questions about their household (number of members, socioeconomic status,
and health conditions).
Loss-gain framing (Study 1). In this study, each participant was rst presented with an overall descrip-
tion of the task, which was to express their opinions on various recommendations for mitigating COVID-19.
Participants were randomized into two framing conditions about the steps one can take to meet COVID-19
guidelines. ese two conditions were framed in either a gain perspective (“You have so much to gain by prac-
ticing these steps”) or a loss perspective (“You have so much to lose by not following these steps”). Within the
loss- and gain-framed conditions, the messages were written in three dierent ways, and participants were ran-
domly assigned which version of the message to view. Participants then rated the likelihood to comply with these
recommendations while the instructions were presented on the page. Next, they rated their feelings on govern-
ment policies related to health, rated their emotions (i.e., anger, anxiety, fear) when considering these policies,
and indicated if they wanted to learn more about WHO guidelines. Finally, participants were asked to complete
a manipulation check about the information they had read to ensure they had paid attention during the study.
Cognitive reappraisal (Study 2). is study focused on determining if a cognitive reappraisal strategy
would change the emotional responses to photos related to COVID-19. First, participants rated their emotions
they were feeling “right now.” For positive emotions, they indicated how hopeful, loved, peaceful, understood, and
cared for they felt. For negative emotions, they indicated how annoyed, sad, angry, stressed, le out, and much
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hate they felt. ese emotions were randomly presented such that each person saw positive and negative emotion
questions interspersed, beginning either with positive (i.e., positive, negative, positive, negative, etc.) or negative.
e order of the questions was also randomized across participants.
At this point in the study, participants were randomized into one of four conditions: (1) reecting: reecting
upon your thoughts and feelings about any situation can lead to dierent emotional responses; (2) rethinking:
dierent ways of interpreting or thinking about any situation can lead to dierent emotions; (3) refocusing:
nding something good in even the most challenging situations can lead to dierent emotional responses; and
(4) a control condition that suggested participants respond as they naturally would. Participants were provided
with instructions on how to implement these appraisals. Consequently, participants had four practice trials
where each time they viewed a picture, rated their current aect/mood, and wrote a few sentences about how
they implemented the appraisal with respect to the picture.
Aer completion of the practice trials, participants rated ten COVID-19 related pictures (e.g., person on
a stretcher being taken out of an ambulance, grieving/worried relatives, etc.) followed by questions about
how positive and negative they felt viewing the pictures. e pictures were selected by lead team of Study 2
by searching major news sources across Asia, Europe, and North America. ese pictures were rated by the
lead team on sadness/anxiety and whether they should use the pictures. e nal selection of pictures received
higher-than-average scores (on a 1–7 Likert scale), for both ratings. is section was followed by the original
emotion questions presented at the beginning of the study, in the same randomized order as they had been pre-
viously seen. ese questions were then adjusted to determine anticipated emotions (i.e., to what extent will you
feel sad). Participants next answered questions about their positive habits, such as exercising, and negative hab-
its, such as drinking and smoking. Last, participants were given a series of attention check questions to identify
inattentive responding, along with a nal question about their current emotional state relative to their emotional
state at the beginning of the study.
Self-determination (Study 3). This study examined the COVID-19 recommendations for
social-distancing across three randomly assigned conditions: (1) an autonomy-supportive message promoting
personal agency and reective choices, (2) a controlling message that was forceful and shaming, and 3) no mes-
sage about social distancing. Each participant rated their current adherence with social distancing before receiv-
ing these messages. Aer the messages, participants rated their motivations to engage in social distancing, and
how the messaging about social distancing made them feel. ey then re-rated the original items about their
social distancing intentions for the next week (i.e., how oen will you see friends in the next week) and the next
six months. At the end of the study, participants completed manipulation check items to ensure messages were
experienced as supportive vs. pressuring.
Data processing. e complete data processing scripts from the study, along with annotations, can be found
at https://osf.io/gvw56/. During the data collection phase of the studies, we tracked several indicators such as the
current participant counts, timing, and other important factors in the study (e.g., the number of people in each
language and group). e code for this tracking is presented in https://osf.io/uzqdr/, but those summary data
were collected only for monitoring purposes during the study. e following data processing steps were taken
on the raw data, and the nal output can be found in the raw_data folder in the OSF repository. e raw data are
stored separately by month in compressed zip les due to their large size and le storage limits. e processing
steps included:
1) Eliminate duplicate rows. We collected data across multiple servers, and sometimes, the server posted the
same participant data twice.
2) Creation of unique identiers for each participant. One language of the study (Swedish) briey did not in-
clude the appropriate code to enable creating unique identiers. erefore, these data were matched using
other information embedded in the surveys and the unique identier was lled in for these participants.
3) Removal of pilot data. We removed pilot testing responses from the dataset. ese responses were identi-
ed by the start dates and times for each language separately.
4) Participant completion codes (e.g., unique subject identiers created for reporting completion at the end of the
study) were extracted from the raw data for researchers to check if their participants had completed the study.
5) Participant personal information (i.e., information that could be used to identify the participant, informa-
tion for creating completion codes, emails or phone numbers for lottery participants) was excluded before
uploading data into the raw_data folder.
Next, we transformed the raw data set to facilitate reuse of the data. e code for this stage can be found at
https://osf.io/shd9a/. e following steps were performed to create a processed dataset, and the output from this
data curation can be found in the processed_data folder online.
1) e information presented on the screen to the participant was included as a new column matching each
item label from the formr worksheets. ese labels were added as new columns in English and the language
the study was displayed in.
2) e answer choice from a participant is included in numeric format (e.g., 1 = Strongly Agree to 5 = Strongly
Disagree), and therefore, we included a new column with the original labels of the answer choice for items
that had text labels. ese labels are in English, even if the study was presented in a dierent language.
3) We created an overall participant le that has relevant information for participants across the entire study.
is data le is described below.
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4) We separated the data from each of the embedded studies (General Survey, Loss Gain, etc. described
above) into independent data les, and these les are described below.
5) For the Cognitive Reappraisal study, we added a column that identied the exact items shown to partici-
pants. e original labels contain markdown and R code that generated the random order of items for each
participant. e label column includes that code but can be dicult to interpret. erefore, we recreated the
order seen by each participant and merged that information into the Cognitive Reappraisal study le only.
Exclusion criteria. Each of the three individual studies used dierent exclusion criteria for their analyses (see
technical validation description below). For the dataset described in this manuscript, no exclusion criteria were
employed other than data curation described above. erefore, the dataset includes all answers from any person
that opened the survey, regardless of completion times or missing data.
Data Records
In this section, we describe the contents of the processed_data folder created from the data processing steps
described above. All data is stored on OSF21. e raw_data folder contains les in a similar structure, which
should be interpretable from the descriptions provided below. e main dierence in these les is that the pro-
cessed data include additional columns to disambiguate the information contained in each row.
Global participant data. The overall participant data consist of one participant information file and
two dictionary les that detail the hand-coded processing of a free text response. e participant information
le (participants.csv) is a comma separated text le that contains overall participant information and can be
accessed at https://osf.io/rjgwh/. e information for each column of the participant le is found in Supplemental
Table1. e le included the geopolitical region from which the participant indicated they had taken the survey,
along with the state (only forU.S. participants). is information was a free text response in the original survey.
e country_dictionary.xlsx (https://osf.io/8zv42/) and state_dictionary.xlsx (https://osf.io/5xbce/) were used
to merge geopolitical information from the overall general survey into this le. ese les are in Excel format
with two tabs. Each text answer was examined by two individuals and coded into geopolitical region codes and
U.S. state names. In cases of disagreement, a third person arbitrated that decision. e rst tab of each document
includes the nal chosen answer, and the second tab includes all coder responses for transparency. Supplemental
Tables2 and 3 include the metadata for each column. Figure3 demonstrates the geopolitical region data and
corresponding sample sizes from this processing.
Individual study data. e data are in long format wherein each line represents a single item that was
shown to the participant, including submit buttons, notes, and hidden item information. All four data les have
the same format (Supplemental Table4). e general survey data can be found at https://osf.io/37uca/ (gen-
eral_data.csv.zip), the Loss-Gain Framing study at https://osf.io/ctsrk/ (study1_data.csv.zip), the Cognitive
Reappraisal study at https://osf.io/bec2f/ (study2_data.csv.zip), and the Self-Determination study at https://osf.
io/aqkjh/ (study3_data.csv.zip). Each le is in comma separated text format, which was then compressed into a
zip archive to t within space limitations for OSF. As noted in Supplemental Table4, the Cognitive Reappraisal
study has one extra column of data due to the specic randomization involved in the study.
Table1 includes information about completion rates and demographic measures for each study. e num-
ber of participants who started the survey is rst reported. Each participant started with the general survey
indicating a large portion of the participants generally opened the link to the study and then declined to con-
tinue (i.e., 73,223 participants opened the link while only 54,952 started the general survey). e number
of participants who completed the last item in each section is also reported. In the next row, we present the
number of participants who completed most of the items (>95%) on the survey as a secondary measure of
the amount of usable data within each area. Depending on the secondary interest variables, more data may be
available for each study. e number of languages and geopolitical regions represented in each study are found
next in the table and the overall demographics can be found in Fig.3. e gender breakdown is provided for
each study, and most participants identied as female. Last, we provide information for technical validation
described below.
Technical Validation
As participants entered the survey, they were randomized into one of two combinations of studies (Cognitive
Reappraisal only or Loss-Gain Framing and Self-Determination combined). Within each of these studies, the
experimental group manipulations were randomly assigned. Last, when noted above, study items were randomly
ordered. e participants were blind to their conditions within the study. e technical programmers and study lead
investigators had knowledge of the study conditions, but these were not known to most of the data collection teams.
Samples were recruited from participant pools, paid participant websites, and social media. Research teams had no
control over the allocation of participants to conditions. Samples were tracked through an online Shiny app (i.e., an
R statistical soware that creates online interactive applications24) that displayed the total number of participants,
separated by language and condition, to ensure appropriate randomization during the study deployment.
As shown in Table1, the timing of the study completion may be used to ensure data quality by excluding
participants who completed the study too quickly (as dened by a secondary analysis team). Each individ-
ual study also included manipulation checks to determine participant attentiveness. In the Loss-Gain Framing
study, each participant was asked to indicate which framing message they had seen, and the number of partic-
ipants indicated in Table1 represents those who chose the correct answer based on their group assignment.
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e Cognitive-Reappraisal study had two manipulation check questions: participants had to pick a picture they
had not previously seen and had to indicate the instructions they had been given to appraise those pictures. e
values in Table1 represent those who answered both questions correctly.
Fig. 3 e top panel includes a map of the countries/geopolitical locations from which data was collected
for the PSACR project with corresponding sample size. e 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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e Self-Determination study did not use a manipulation check with a “correct” answer, but rather examined
if their manipulation changed the responses to questions presented at the end of the study (1 Strongly Disagree to
7 Strongly Agree). e autonomy group (M = 4.11, SD = 1.70) rated the instructions as providing more choices
than the controlling message group (M = 3.57, SD = 2.01, d = 0.29) and the no message group (M = 3.75,
SD = 1.82, d = 0.20), while the controlling message group rated the messages lower than the no message group
(d = 0.10). A second question asked participants to rate the messages seen as trying to pressure people. e
controlling messages group rated the item the highest (M = 3.30, SD = 2.07) in comparison to the autonomy
message group (M = 2.62, SD = 1.91, d = 0.34) and the no message group (M = 2.88, SD = 1.96, d = 0.21).
e no message group rated this item as higher than the autonomy group, d = 0.14. While these eect sizes are
small, they indicate a pattern of responses that support participants’ responding to the manipulations presented
for their group.
Code availability
All code can be found at https://osf.io/gvw56/.
Received: 9 June 2022; Accepted: 27 October 2022;
Published: xx xx xxxx
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We would like to acknowledge the contribution of multiple funders who contributed to the success of this project
(all listed below). Additionally, the authors would like to thank others who contributed to the PSACR project, as
not all contributed to this manuscript. A complete list of personnel can be found at https://psyarxiv.com/x976j/.
Erin M. Buchanan: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant. Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe: Internal
funding from Kingston University. Hannah Moshontz: National Institute of Mental Health of the National
Institutes of Health under Award Number T32MH018931. Adeyemi Adetula: PSA research grant ($285.59) for
the PSACR projects data collection. Dmitrii Dubrov: e work of Dmitrii Dubrov was supported within the
framework of the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF. Marek A. Vranka: Progres Q18/Cooperatio
MCOM, Charles University. Yuki Yamada: JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP18K12015 and JP20H04581.
Niklas Johannes: Huo Family Foundation. Tatsunori Ishii: JSPS (The Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science) KAKENHI, Grant Number 19K14370. Małgorzata Kossowska: e Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian
University. Kevin van Schie: Rubicon grant (019.183SG.007) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientic
Research (NWO). Robert M. Ross: Australian Research Council (DP180102384). Dmitry Grigoryev: The
Russian data was collected within the framework of the HSE University Basic Research Program. Tripat Gill:
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Anthony J. Krafnick: Dominican University Faculty
Support Grant. Jaime R. Silva: FONDECYT 1221538. William Jiménez-Leal: Vicerrectoria de Investigaciones,
Uniandes. Agnieszka Sorokowska: Statutory funds of the Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw. Adriana
Julieth Olaya Torres: University of Desarrollo, Faculty of Psychology. Piotr Sorokowski: Study was founded by
IDN Being Human Lab (University of Wrocław). Michal Misiak: IDN Being Human Lab (University of Wrocław).
Krystian Barzykowski: was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland (2019/35/B/HS6/00528). Patrícia
Arriaga: was supported by UID/PSI/03125/2019 from the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and
Technology (FCT). Ivan Ropovik: PRIMUS/20/HUM/009 and NPO Systemic Risk Institute (LX22NPO5101).
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Cárcamo: ANID - Fondecyt 1201513. Sébastien Massoni: Program FUTURE LEADER of Lorraine Université
d’Excellence within the program Investissements Avenir (ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE) operated by the French
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Writing - original dra: Erin M. Buchanan, Jerey M. Pavlacic, Savannah C. Lewis. Writing - review & editing: All
authors. Visualization: Erin M. Buchanan, Peder Mortvedt Isager. Validation: Erin M. Buchanan. Formal Analysis:
Erin M. Buchanan. Data curation: Erin M. Buchanan, Bastien Paris. Conceptualization, Methodology: Patrícia
Arriaga, Nicholas A. Coles, Charles A. Dorison, Amit Goldenberg, James J. Gross, Blake Heller, Michael C.
Mensink, Jeremy K. Miller, Ivan Ropovik, Alexander J. Rothman, Richard M Ryan, Andrew G.omas, Ke Wang,
Nicole Legate, Brian P Gill, Vaughan W. Rees, Nancy Gibbs, uy-vy i Nguyen. Project Administration: Flavio
Azevedo, Jennifer L. Beaudry, Julie E. Beshears, Erin M. Buchanan, Dr. Christopher R. Chartier, Nicholas A.
Coles, Patrick S. Forscher, Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, Hans IJzerman, Carmel A. Levitan, Savannah C.
Lewis, Peter R Mallik, Shira Meir Drexler, Jeremy K. Miller, Hannah Moshontz, Bastien Paris, Maximilian A.
Primbs, MohammadHasan Sharifian, Miguel Alejandro A. Silan, Jordan W. Suchow, Anna Louise Todsen.
Resources: Balazs Aczel, Matus Adamkovic, Sylwia Adamus, Adeyemi Adetula, Gabriel Agboola Adetula, Arca
Adıgüzel, Bamikole Emmanuel AGESIN, Lina Pernilla Ahlgren, Afroja Ahmed, Handan Akkas, Sara G. Alves,
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2, Bastien Paris
3, Patrick S. Forscher
4,
Jerey M. Pavlacic5, Julie E. Beshears6, Shira Meir Drexler7, Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe8,9,
Peter R Mallik10, Miguel Alejandro A. Silan
11, Jeremy K. Miller12, Hans IJzerman
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Hannah Moshontz15, Jennifer L. Beaudry16, Jordan W. Suchow
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Nicholas A. Coles
18, MohammadHasan Sharian19, Anna Louise Todsen20,
Carmel A. Levitan
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23, Blake Heller24,
Alexander J. Rothman25, Charles A. Dorison26, Brian P. Gill27, Ke Wang28, Vaughan W. Rees
29,
Nancy Gibbs30, Amit Goldenberg31, Thuy-vy Thi Nguyen32, James J. Gross33, Gwenaêl Kaminski34,
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46,
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69,
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Bamikole Emmanuel AGESIN72, Teodor Jernsäther
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75,
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