We Misunderstood the Nature of Anxiety: Paradoxical Responses to Natural Disasters and Phantom Anxiety Theory

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<p>Existing psychological theories predict that real threats increase anxiety indicators. Data from 123 catastrophic floods across 18 high- and low-SDI countries, with a combined population of approximately 1.7 billion, contradict this prediction. Following floods, anxiety indicators increased in low-SDI countries but decreased in high-SDI countries, even though attention to the disaster surged in both groups. Pha...

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bfebb24c-e7e5-5fd7-88dd-27694d0d65e1

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10.31234/osf.io/wkzty_v1