Table 1 Words produced for ‘COVID-19’ by at least 10% of participants ordered according to their frequency, and their cognitive salience index.

From: Differences and similarities in the conceptualization of COVID-19 and other diseases in the first Italian lockdown

Word

Percentage of participants producing the feature (raw frequency)

Cognitive salience

Virus

49 (36)

0.36

Pandemic

27 (20)

0.12

Fear

27 (20)

0.10

Disease

16 (12)

0.08

Death

15 (11)

0.04

Quarantine

15 (11)

0.05

Contagion

14 (10)

0.04