COVID-19 has become a global pandemic.

Mitigation of the virus depends on a number of people engaging in behaviors that limit the virus’ spread. In these studies our goals are:

• improve policy support, information seeking, and intentions to engage in preventative behavior related to COVID-19;
• investigate how individuals can better regulate their emotions to reducing negative emotion, catastrophic thoughts and rumination concerning the pandemic;
• test the effectiveness of different types of messaging encouraging social distancing.

Collectively, these studies test psychologically informed techniques to promote healthier behaviors and reduce anxiety in the context of a pandemic, increase the effectiveness of current efforts to combat the virus.

The studies are being conducted at the same time by a diversity of labs from at least 41 countries, including researchers from three universities in Portugal (Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Universidade do Porto e Universidade de Coimbra).

The link to the Portuguese survey is the following http://formr.psysciacc.org/formr/psacr-pool-portuguese. We really appreciate your collaboration!