About the Authors

Eamonn Ferguson

eamonn.ferguson@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Heather Semper

Affiliation Centre for Health Psychology, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

Janet Yates

Affiliation Medical Education Centre, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

J. Edward Fitzgerald

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Barnet Hospital, Barnet, United Kingdom

Anya Skatova

Affiliation Horizon Digital Economy Research, Nottingham University Innovation Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom

David James

Affiliation Medical Education Centre, University of Nottingham School of Medicine, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EF HS JY DJ JEF. Performed the experiments: HS JY JEF. Analyzed the data: EF. Wrote the paper: EF DJ HS JY JEF AS. Provided addition data for the comparison sample: AS.