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The outbreak of a novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 disease has meant that the world has had to take precautionary public health measures to help eliminate the spread of the virus (Heymann and Shindo 2020) however this pathogen threat can also translate into willingness to distance ourselves from others on a psychological level. Will the ongoing pandemic of Coronavirus affect attitudes toward foreign nationalities? The COVID-19 virus outbreak has dominated the news and the constant processing of information about it can be highly arousing and eliciting anxiety (Al-Rabiaah et al. 2020), thereby influencing the level of any potential prejudice. Research by Sorokowski et al. (2020) has examined whether Polish and UK participants’ media exposure predicts their level of prejudice toward four nationalities. China and Italy were used, representing one culturally close and one culturally distant nation with a large outbreak of the virus, and Hungary and Mongolia, representing one culturally c...