The self-regulation of face touching - a preregistered experiment testing if-then plans as a means to promote COVID-19 prevention.
Objective: Reducing face touching could help slow COVID-19's spread. We tested whether implementation intentions, a simple-to-use behaviour change intervention, reduce face-touching behaviour effectively. Design: In this pre-registered online study, we utilised a novel way to collect behavioural dat...
| Publicado en: | Psychology & Health Vol. 38; no. 8; pp. 1089 - 1108 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul/Aug2023
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