About the Authors

Julianne Holt-Lunstad

Contributed equally to this work with: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith

julianne_holt-lunstad@byu.edu

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Timothy B. Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Timothy B. Smith

Affiliation Department of Counseling Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

J. Bradley Layton

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: JHL TS JBL. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: JHL TS JBL. Designed the experiments/the study: TS. Analyzed the data: JHL TS JBL. Collected data/did experiments for the study: JHL TS JBL. Wrote the first draft of the paper: JHL TS. Contributed to the writing of the paper: JHL TS JBL.