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cord-324143-ztj6o4ob	Harper, Craig A.	Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-04-27		.txt	text/plain	5726	280	44	In this study, we recruited a large international community sample (N = 324) to complete measures of self-perceived risk of contracting COVID-19, fear of the virus, moral foundations, political orientation, and behavior change in response to the pandemic. (2020) research, subjectively judged self-control attenuated the link between perceived COVID-19 severity and poorer mental health, suggesting that combining a sensible level of fear about the illness with messages related to personal agency could encourage safetypromoting behavior in the form of hand hygiene and social distancing. That is, the results of the current study suggest that negative emotions in response to the current pandemic predict adaptive public health-compliant behavior change (e.g., hand washing, social distancing). We argue that the lack of any significant political orientation or moral foundations effects on behavior change is a positive point from a social perspective, and suggests that, in times of (inter)national crisis, people can forgo their ideological commitments and behave consistently with governmental advice in pursuit of a common public health good.	./cache/cord-324143-ztj6o4ob.txt	./txt/cord-324143-ztj6o4ob.txt