Emotional responses to COVID-19 stressors increase information avoidance about an important unrelated health threat

• Christopher R. Gustafson ,

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

  * E-mail: cgustafson6@unl.edu

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6894-9456

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• Kathleen R. Brooks ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathleen R. Brooks, Syed Imran Ali Meerza, Amalia Yiannaka

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Syed Imran Ali Meerza ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathleen R. Brooks, Syed Imran Ali Meerza, Amalia Yiannaka

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agriculture, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Amalia Yiannaka

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathleen R. Brooks, Syed Imran Ali Meerza, Amalia Yiannaka

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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