{"id":8118,"date":"2020-07-13T09:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T16:29:36","slug":"working-memory-capacity-predicts-individual-differences-in-social-distancing-compliance-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/working-memory-capacity-predicts-individual-differences-in-social-distancing-compliance-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Memory Capacity Predicts Individual Differences in Social-Distancing Compliance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"45\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Xie et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found that adherence to social distancing guidance\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">among participants (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2 study populations,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">397<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and n-453<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">) surveyed in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mid<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to late<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">March\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">associated with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">individual differences in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">working memory<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0capacity, and\u00a0was partly due to increased awareness of benefits over costs of social distancing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They defined\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">memory capacity\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">as the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ability to simultaneously retain multiple pieces of information<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. <\/span>This effect persisted after adjustment for other psychological and socioeconomic factors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Xie et al. (July 2020). Working Memory Capacity Predicts Individual Differences in Social-Distancing Compliance during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">PNAS<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2008868117\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2008868117<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xie et al.\u00a0found that adherence to social distancing guidance\u00a0among participants (2 study populations,\u00a0n=397\u00a0and n-453) surveyed in\u00a0mid&#8211;\u00a0to late\u00a0&#8211;March\u00a0was\u00a0associated with\u00a0individual differences in\u00a0working memory\u00a0capacity, and\u00a0was partly due to increased awareness of benefits over costs of social distancing.\u00a0They defined\u00a0memory capacity\u00a0as the\u00a0ability to simultaneously retain multiple pieces of information. This effect persisted after adjustment for other psychological and socioeconomic factors&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/13\/working-memory-capacity-predicts-individual-differences-in-social-distancing-compliance-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8119,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions\/8119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}