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Table 1 Means (in ms) of untransformed response latencies in the VAAST in Experiments 1 and 2 (Standard deviations in parentheses)

From: The COVID-19 pandemic and changes in social behavior: Protective face masks reduce deliberate social distancing preferences while leaving automatic avoidance behavior unaffected

 

Intervention groups

Control groups

Experiment 1

Masked participants

Unmasked participants

Masked target

Unmasked target

Masked target

Unmasked target

Approach

548 (112)

555 (109)

565 (252)

572 (146)

Avoid

555 (111)

567 (98)

568 (98)

600 (326)

Experiment 2

Disease prime video

Control prime video

Masked target

Unmasked target

Masked target

Unmasked target

Approach

517 (107)

522 (93)

503 (94)

514 (90)

Avoid

525 (88)

533 (83)

518 (85)

529 (84)