期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2021
卷号：118
期号：8
页码：1
DOI：10.1073/pnas.2024017118
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：Xie et al. (1) report that a higher working memory (WM) capacity increases social-distancing compliance, even after accounting for relevant covariates (e.g., mood and personality traits), and that this effect is partly mediated by a facilitating benefit-over-cost analysis about social-distancing practice. In light of these findings, the authors suggest that interventions aiming to increase WM capacity might help to enhance compliance to social-distancing practice in times of crisis. After reanalyzing the data, we suggest that their conclusions should be nuanced with respect to 1) the disproportionate focus on WM capacity relative to other factors that equally explain the outcome and 2) the partial statistical control over factors’ indirect effects on social distancing.
