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Psychological distance towards COVID-19: Geographical and hypothetical distance predict attitudes and mediate knowledge

2020-12-16

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<p>While different antecedents have been examined to explain peoples' reactions towards COVID-19, there is only scarce understanding about the role of the subjective closeness and distance to the pandemic. Within the current study, we applied the concept of psychological distance to understand the distance towards COVID-19 and investigated its (1) connection with preventive attitudes and proactive behaviors, (2) c...

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Literature Corpus work: f8e1e021-3eb9-5a75-af4b-160b64385399
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3n5pt

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