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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pers Soc Psychol. 2020 May 14;120(1):99–130. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000245

Table 11.

In-Situ Sociopolitical-to-Personal Threat-Defense using Yesterday’s Google search activity 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 −.089 -- −.073 --
Yesterday’s outcome variable .021 (.025) 0.84 −.024 (.024) −1.00
Yesterday’s Google search activity .051 (.014) 3.64*** .037 (014) 2.64*
Average Google search activity .084 (.081) 1.04 .079 (.052) 1.52
Linear trust .310 (.028) 11.1*** .124 (.016) 7.75***
Linear trust by yesterday’s Google activity −.017 (.011) −1.55 −.018 (.008) −2.25*
Linear trust by average Google search activity −.085 (.059) −1.44 −.006 (.028) −0.21
Quadratic trust (Trust squared) .022 (.007) 3.14*** .010 (.004) 2.50*
Quadratic trust by yesterday’s Google search activity −.006 (.003) −2.00* −.004 (.002) −2.00*
Quadratic trust by average Google search activity −.038 (.022) −1.73+ −.004 (.008) −0.50
+

p < .10

*

p < .05

**

p < .01

***

p < .001.

NB: Coefficients set to be random are italicized.