About the Authors

Jeremy Atkinson

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Atkinson, R. Nathan Pipitone

ja391266@albany.edu (JA); npipitone@adams.edu (RNP)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

R. Nathan Pipitone

Contributed equally to this work with: Jeremy Atkinson, R. Nathan Pipitone

ja391266@albany.edu (JA); npipitone@adams.edu (RNP)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Adams State University, Alamosa, Colorado, United States of America

Agnieszka Sorokowska

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Piotr Sorokowski

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Poland

Mara Mberira

Affiliation Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Astrid Bartels

Affiliation Technische Universitaet Berlin, Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany

Gordon G. Gallup Jr.

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RNP JA GGG PS. Performed the experiments: AS PS MM. Analyzed the data: RNP JA AB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS JA PS MM AB. Wrote the paper: RNP JA GGG PS AS AB.