Procedure
Each morning at 7.30am (expiry time 10am), participants would be asked to do either an EFT exercise, a compassion exercise, or reflect on a recent news story related to COVID-19. For the EFT exercise, participants were asked to imagine themselves in a future without COVID-19, for example, where they were travelling without restrictions. For the compassion exercise, participants were asked to imagine the suffering of individuals who were badly affected by COVID-19, for example, through the loss of family members. The news stories of COVID-19 concerned the negative impacts of COVID-19 on society (e.g., public health, business). All prompts are included in the Each day, after the morning survey, participants would receive 5 surveys that were available for 1 h. In randomised order, they were asked whether since the last survey they had felt an urge to 