Is it really “panic buying”? Public perceptions and experiences of extra buying at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Evangelos Ntontis ,

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

  * E-mail: evangelos.ntontis@open.ac.uk

  Affiliations School of Psychology and Counselling, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, School of Psychology and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8284-6015

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• Sara Vestergren,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0514-6749

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• Patricio Saavedra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de O’Higgins, Rancagua, Chile

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• Fergus Neville,

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

  Affiliation School of Management, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7377-4507

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• Klara Jurstakova,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6212-3140

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• Chris Cocking,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2960-9146

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• Siugmin Lay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centro de Medición Mide UC, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7800-1554

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• John Drury,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7748-5128

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• Clifford Stott,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Stephen Reicher,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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• Vivian L. Vignoles

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

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