Data for VAR analysis and figures for "Perceiving is believing: Pervasive negative framing of bats during disease outbreaks"

Data used for the VAR analysis (covid_combined.csv) and data used to create the violin and ridge plots in the manuscript (Zeroshot_perceptionscores_all_new.csv). Please refer to the main publication for a detailed description. R code to reproduce the analysis pipeline is available on GitHub: https://github.com/melissameierhofer/Bat-Perceptions-in-Media