Ambivalence and Self-Reported Adherence to Recommendations to Reduce the Spread of COVID-19

We gratefully acknowledge Andreas Glöckner, Simone Dohle, and Jeff Larsen for their generous support in data collection/sharing. We thank Jacqueline Bachmann for her excellent support in preparing this manuscript for submission.

Iris K. Schneider and Angela R. Dorrough designed and conceptualized all studies and collected the data. Iris K. Schneider, Angela R. Dorrough, and Celine Frank performed data analyses. Iris K. Schneider drafted the manuscript. Angela R. Dorrough and Celine Frank provided constructive comments and editing. Celine Frank is a master’s student working under the supervision of the first author.

We preregistered all studies and conducted analyses in line with the preregistration using statistical analyses packages in R (2020) (Schneider et al., 2021). Data, materials (including all measures), and analysis scripts can be found on the Open Science Framework page (Schneider et al., 2021).