Nicholas A. Coles's research while affiliated with Harvard University and other places

... Speakers' verbal expressions also have an impact on listeners' emotions. A large-scale study found that COVID-19 messages that were framed in terms of losses (vs gains) increased anxiety (Dorison et al., 2022). ...

... Moreover, the quality of studies on fear appeals in promoting health-oriented behaviours has been criticized due to a lack of research that would capture behavioural change, which limits our understanding of the causal relationship between fear appeal and behaviour (Kok et al., 2018). Especially in the context of the pandemic, the existing evidence is limited to individual countries, employing cross-sectional design, and not distinguishing interand intra-individual changes (c.f., Legate et al., 2022). In conclusion, it remains unclear whether the fear of a virus predicts behaviours that should limit virus transmission, crucially on the intra-individual level. ...

... Coping via cognitive restructuring (e.g., "looking at the positive side of things") during the lockdown period in 2020 was longitudinally associated with less severe anxiety symptoms, and cross-sectionally in 2021 with less severe depression symptoms, in line with literature documenting this as a fruitful coping behavior [13,19,56], with cognitive restructuring being an integral part of psychotherapy for anxiety and depression [57,58], and with a large international study conducted to evaluate the efficacy of a re-appraisal intervention among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic [59] that found that a simple intervention that encouraged participants to refocus "on whatever good aspects may be found in a situation" reduced negative emotions and increased positive emotions. It is likely that the cognitive restructuring style of coping is particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic, since an individual's ability to influence the pandemic itself is limited. ...

... What makes this trend worrisome is the fact that the matter of authorship unfolds sharp gender inequalities in the scientific community, where female authors are arranged with more co-first (rather than the first) authors relative to what is applicable to male authors (Fleming, 2021). Furthermore, the scrambling for privileged positions in authorship arrangements is increasingly forcing early career researchers to distance themselves from scientific works and big-science collaborations, especially neuroscientists (Yager, 2007;Coles et al., 2022). Under the current scientific incentive system, it is an intuition that the credits a study can deliver for an author can be likened to the commercial values of a building, with the front location (position) indicating a high price (credit). ...

... Also, future studies should examine whether emotion dysregulation might play a significant role in specific contexts where conspiracy beliefs have been consequential, such as for the COVID-19 pandemic (Douglas, 2021a;Kowalski et al., 2020;Łowicki et al., 2022;Sternisko et al., 2021). This potential study appears to be even more important in the light of recent research (Wang et al., 2021), indicating that an adaptive emotion regulation strategy (i.e., reappraisal) reduced negative emotions regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

... We also would like to point to Living Systematic Reviews (Elliott et al., 2014), which, as far as we can judge, are conceptually equivalent to CAMAs and were developed in parallel. In what follows, we continue using the name CAMA as this is the name under which we had proposed this idea, which has been picked up by others in the cognitive sciences (Bosnjak, 2020;Burgard, Bosnjak, & Studtrucker, 2021;Ijzerman et al., 2021). Step 0: Consider educational opportunities. ...

... Consistent with a learning account, there are systematic cultural differences in first impressions (Chen, Jing, Lee, & Bai, 2016;Jones et al., 2021;Lakshmi, Wittenbrink, Correll, & Ma, 2021;Over, Eggleston, & Cook, 2020a;Sofer et al., 2017;Sutherland et al., 2018;Walker, Jiang, Vetter, & Sczesny, 2011;Zebrowitz et al., 2012). For example, in so-called WEIRD cultures (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic), straight white teeth are associated with attractiveness, social status, and a host of other positive characteristics (Dion et al., 1972;Eagly et al., 1991). ...