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Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2020 May 14;120(1):99–130. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000245

Table 10.

In-Situ Sociopolitical-to-Personal Threat-Defense using Yesterday’s VIX to capture unexpected sociopolitical behavior.

	Study 1		Study 2
	Romantic Partner Communal Motivations		Familial Communal Motivations Today
Predictor	b (SE)	z	b (SE)	z
Intercept	−.079	--	−.066	--
Yesterday’s outcome variable	.019 (.025)	0.76	−.044 (.024)	−1.83⁺
Yesterday’s VIX	.030 (.011)	2.73^**	.0009 (.015)	0.06
Average VIX	--	--	−.063 (.044)	−1.43
Linear trust	.306 (.028)	10.93^***	.120 (.016)	7.50^***
Linear trust by yesterday’s VIX	−.016 (.009)	−1.78⁺	.0004 (.008)	0.05
Linear trust by average VIX	--	--	.058 (.026)	2.23^*
Quadratic trust (Trust squared)	.019 (.007)	2.71^**	.009 (.004)	2.25^*
Quadratic trust by yesterday’s VIX	−.0044 (.0021)	−2.10^*	.0006 (.002)	0.30
Quadratic trust by average VIX	--	--	.007 (.007)	1.00

⁺

p < .10

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p < .001.

NB: Coefficients set to be random are italicized. Study 1 data was collected in one 10-day wave, making it impossible to include the average VIX as a predictor (because it was a constant).