Do Pandemics Trigger Death Thoughts Study 2

Background:
These studies aim to investigate the effects of pandemics of varying severity on death thought accessibility in two studies while controlling for health anxiety. Study 1 (n = 203) examined the effect of standard MS, severe pandemic, mild pandemic, and dental conditions on death thought accessibility as assessed by the death word fragment task (DWFT).  Study 2 (n = 163) was conducted with more sensitive death thought accessibility measures such as the lexical decision task and dot probe task.
Data collection for Study 2 was conducted between December 2021 to February 2022, during which COVID-19 continued to ravage the world. The study design is the same as Study 1, except for the removal of the mild pandemic condition and a change of dependent variables (DVs) to assess DTA. The mild pandemic condition was removed as it did not trigger significant perception of threats in our pilot study and there were no significant effects of mild pandemic condition on DTA in Study 1. The DWFT was replaced with the Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), lexical-decision task (LDT), and the dot-probe task (DPT). 
Similar to Study 1, Study 2 hypothesizes that the pandemic condition and the standard MS condition will yield significantly higher levels of death cognitions than the control conditions after a time delay, even when we control for health anxiety after a time delay. Study 2 was pre-registered with Open Science Framework (OSF) Registries (Registration DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/4SD2J).
Information pertaining to Study 1 can be found: https://doi.org/10.25903/sx6c-re28 
This data record contains:
1 x SPSS (.sav) file containing input data and calculation of death anxiety, response time on lexical decision task and attention bias index from dot probe task used in analysis. File also available in Open Document (.ods) format.
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Software/equipment used to collect the data: Qualtrics
Software/equipment used to analyse the data: SPSS