The psychological science accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

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

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e., a controlling message) compared with no message at all. Results partially supported experimental hypotheses in that the controlling message increased controlled motivation (a poorly internalized form of motivation relying on shame, guilt, and fear of social consequences) relative to no message. On the other hand, the autonomy-supportive message lowered feelings of defiance compared with the controlling message, but the controlling message did not differ from receiving no message at all. Unexpectedly, messages did not influence autonomous motivation (a highly internalized form of motivation relying on one’s core values) or behavioral intentions. Results supported hypothesized associations between people’s existing autonomous and controlled motivations and self-reported behavioral intentions to engage in social distancing. Controlled motivation was associated with more defiance and less long-term behavioral intention to engage in social distancing, whereas autonomous motivation was associated with less defiance and more short- and long-term intentions to social distance. Overall, this work highlights the potential harm of using shaming and pressuring language in public health communication, with implications for the current and future global health challenges

In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries

The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in terms of potential losses (e.g., "If you do not practice these steps, you can endanger yourself and others") or potential gains (e.g., "If you practice these steps, you can protect yourself and others")? Collecting data in 48 languages from 15,929 participants in 84 countries, we experimentally tested the effects of message framing on COVID-19-related judgments, intentions, and feelings. Loss- (vs. gain-) framed messages increased self-reported anxiety among participants cross-nationally with little-to-no impact on policy attitudes, behavioral intentions, or information seeking relevant to pandemic risks. These results were consistent across 84 countries, three variations of the message framing wording, and 560 data processing and analytic choices. Thus, results provide an empirical answer to a global communication question and highlight the emotional toll of loss-framed messages. Critically, this work demonstrates the importance of considering unintended affective consequences when evaluating nudge-style interventions

4to. Congreso Internacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación para la Sociedad. Memoria académica

Este volumen acoge la memoria académica de la Cuarta edición del Congreso Internacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación para la Sociedad, CITIS 2017, desarrollado entre el 29 de noviembre y el 1 de diciembre de 2017 y organizado por la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (UPS) en su sede de Guayaquil. El Congreso ofreció un espacio para la presentación, difusión e intercambio de importantes investigaciones nacionales e internacionales ante la comunidad universitaria que se dio cita en el encuentro. El uso de herramientas tecnológicas para la gestión de los trabajos de investigación como la plataforma Open Conference Systems y la web de presentación del Congreso http://citis.blog.ups.edu.ec/, hicieron de CITIS 2017 un verdadero referente entre los congresos que se desarrollaron en el país. La preocupación de nuestra Universidad, de presentar espacios que ayuden a generar nuevos y mejores cambios en la dimensión humana y social de nuestro entorno, hace que se persiga en cada edición del evento la presentación de trabajos con calidad creciente en cuanto a su producción científica. Quienes estuvimos al frente de la organización, dejamos plasmado en estas memorias académicas el intenso y prolífico trabajo de los días de realización del Congreso Internacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación para la Sociedad al alcance de todos y todas

The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

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

Ecología comparativa de cuatro especies de primates en la amazonía colombiana con implicaciones sobre su conservación

IP 3253-13-223-92Incluye anexos. Incluye 3 mapas.ARTICULO(S) EN REVISTA : Callicebus torquatus is not a white-sand specialist / Thomas R. Defler En: American;Journal of Primatology. No.33 (1994) -- Jaguars eat dolphins,too / ThomasR. Defler En: Trianea. No.5 (1994); A capture of and some notes on atelocynus microtis (sclater,1883) (carnivora: canidae) in the colombian;amazon / Thomas R. Defler, Alejandro Santacruz -- En: AmericanJournal ofPrimatology. No.33 (1994) -- La;conservacion de primates en Colombia / Thomas R. Defler --En:Trianea. No.5 (1994) -- The time budget of a;group of wild woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagotricha) / Thomas R.Defler --En: International Journal of;Primatology. Vol.16, No.1 (1995) -- Sara, the monkeys havegotten into thehouse again or how humans form the;north have adapted to some of their responsabilities in the amazonian south / Thomas R. Defler En: IPPL News.;vol.22, no.2 (Ago. 1995) -- Mamiferos colombianos: sus nombrescomunes e indigenas / Jose Vicente Rodriguez;... [et al.] En: Ocassional Papers in Conservation Biology. No.3(1995) --Aspects of the ranging pattern in a;group of wild woolly monkeys (Lagothrix Lagothricha) / ThomasR.Defler En: American Journal of primatology.;No.38 (1996) -- Diet of a group of Lagothrix Lagothricha Lagothricha in Southeastern Colombia / Thomas R.;Defler y Sara B. Defler -- En: International Journal of Primatology. vol.17, no.2 (1996) -- An IUCN;classification for the primates of Colombia / Thomas R. DeflerEn: Neotropical primates. vol.4, no.3 (1996) --;The IUCN conservation status of Lagothrix Lagothricha Lugens Elliot, 1907/ Thomas R. Defler -- En:;Neotropical Primates. vol.4, no.3 (1996) -- Diet of a group ofCallicebustorquatus lugens (Humboldt, 1812);During the annual resource bottleneck in amazonian Colombia /Erwin Palacios, Adriana Rodriguez y Thomas R.;Defler -- En: International Journal of Primatology. vol.18, no.4(1997) --DOCUMENTOS : Dieta de Callicebus;torquatus lugens: comparacion entre varios grupos / Adriana Rodriguez Rodriguez -- Estudio de ecologia basica;de Cebus apella en el bajo Apaporis. Estacion biologica Caparu/Luis Fernando Barrios y Hugo Mantilla M.;Reconocimiento biologico del Rio Matavon (Vichada) con enfasisespecial enprimates y aves y algunos;comentarios sobre otros puntos geograficos en el departamento(octubre de1993) / Thomas R. Defler, Sara B.;Defler y Jose Vicente Rodriguez -- Reconocimiento biologico enlos bajos rios Uva y Guaviare y en la region;entre los rios Inirida y Guainia, con especial enfasis enprimates (12 demarzo - 8 de abril, 1994) / Thomas;R. Defler -- La viudita de los Andaquies / Adriana Rodriguez R.y Erwin Palacios A. -- Biodiversidad en la;amazonia colombiana: reconocimientos biologicos en tres areascon enfasisen los primates / Thomas R. Defle