The COVID-19 pandemic allowed for a naturalistic, longitudinal investigation of the relationship between faith and science mindsets and concern about COVID-19. Our goal was to examine two possible directional relationships: (Model 1) COVID-19 concern ➔ disease avoidance and self-protection motivations ➔ science and faith mindsets versus (Model 2) science and faith mindsets ➔ COVID-19 concern. We surveyed 858 Mechanical Turk workers in three waves of a study conducted in March, April, and June 2020. We found that science mindsets increased whereas faith mindsets decreased (regardless of religious type) during the early months of the pandemic. Further, bivariate correlations and autoregressive cross-lagged analyses indicated that science mindset was positive predictor of COVID-19 concern, in support of Model 2. Faith mindset was not associated with COVID-19 concern. However, faith mindset was a negative predictor of science mindset. We discuss the need for more research regarding the influence of science and faith mindsets as well as the societal consequences of the pandemic.

COVID-19 大流行允许对信仰和科学思维之间的关系以及对 COVID-19 的关注进行自然的纵向调查。我们的目标是检查两种可能的方向关系：（模型 1）COVID-19 关注 ➔ 疾病避免和自我保护动机 ➔ 科学和信仰心态与（模型 2）科学和信仰心态 ➔ COVID-19 关注。我们在 2020 年 3 月、4 月和 6 月进行的三轮研究中对 858 名 Mechanical Turk 工人进行了调查。我们发现，在大流行的最初几个月里，科学思维增加了，而信仰思维减少了（无论宗教类型如何）。此外，双变量相关和自回归交叉滞后分析表明，科学心态是 COVID-19 关注的积极预测因素，支持模型 2。信仰心态与 COVID-19 担忧无关。然而，信仰心态是科学心态的负面预测指标。我们讨论了就科学和信仰心态的影响以及大流行的社会后果进行更多研究的必要性。