About the Authors

Lawrence K. Ma

Affiliation Personality, Social Psychology, and Health Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Richard J. Tunney

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

Eamonn Ferguson

eamonn.ferguson@nottingham.ac.uk

Affiliation Personality, Social Psychology, and Health Research Group, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests: 1. The third author - Eamonn Ferguson - holds a joint research grant from The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with one of the suggested reviewers: Alex Wood. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EF RJT LKM. Performed the experiments: LKM. Analyzed the data: LKM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LKM. Wrote the paper: LKM EF RJT. Critically appraised the paper: LKM EF RJT.