People who worried more about COVID-19 also took more precautions against catching the disease, a new study led by a Dickinson College researcher finds. The journal Psychology & Health published the study. Psychology Professor Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D., and her team looked at the interplay between one’s perceived risk of getting COVID-19 and the state of worrying about getting COVID-19 and how they influenced behaviors to prevent getting the disease. Researchers found that worrying about COVID-19 better predicted people taking COVID-19 precautions than did their perceived risk—how much at risk people personally thought they were of getting or dying from COVID-19.