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. 2021 Oct 30:1–13. Online ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s12144-021-02439-3

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Fig. 1 — A Google Trends analysis of the relative worldwide search volume of the terms “stress reduction” and “reality shifting” between January 7, 2019, and July 7, 2021

Note: Google Trends shows normalized data. This means that when one looks at search interest over time for a topic, that interest is presented as a proportion of the chosen searched topics on Google during that period and at that location. Figure 1 shows the global search interest for the terms “Reality Shifting” and “Stress Reduction” as a proportion of all searches on these topics on Google worldwide before, during, and following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.