Who is to blame for COVID-19? Examining politicized fear and health behavior through a mixed methods study in the United States

• Lisa J. Hardy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lisa.hardy@nau.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Social Science Community Engagement Lab, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2726-3674

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• Adi Mana,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Behavioural Science, Peres Academic Center, Rehovot, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-7937

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• Leah Mundell,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Social Science Community Engagement Lab, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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• Moran Neuman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Martin-Springer Center for Conflict Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Shiva, Israel

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• Sharón Benheim,

  Roles Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Martin-Springer Center for Conflict Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Shiva, Israel

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• Eric Otenyo

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Social Science Community Engagement Lab, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America, Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

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