About the Authors

Lucy P. Goldsmith

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucy P. Goldsmith, Alison J. Wearden

LPGoldsmith1@gmail.com; L.P.Goldsmith@hud.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Health and Human Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Graham Dunn

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Population Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom

Richard P. Bentall

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Shôn W. Lewis

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, Institute of Brain, Behaviour and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Alison J. Wearden

Contributed equally to this work with: Lucy P. Goldsmith, Alison J. Wearden

Affiliations Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom, School of Psychological Sciences and Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LPG GD RPB SWL AJW. Performed the experiments: GD RPB AJW. Analyzed the data: LPG GD. Wrote the paper: LPG GD RPB SWL AJW.