“…Body vigilance refers to a tendency to carefully monitor body sensations ( Olatunji, Deacon, Abramowitz, & Valentiner, 2007 ) and may contribute to COVID-19-related anxiety as frequent body scanning creates more opportunities to notice benign changes in one’s body, which individuals high in AS then might interpret as dangerous (i.e., as signs of infection). It is important to note that while body vigilance is a more general tendency to scan one’s body and not specific to monitor for signs of illness or threat, the pandemic likely activated higher levels of vigilance tilting in the threat-related direction (e.g., McKay et al, 2020 ), contributing to the misinterpretation of body sensations ( Duman, Herdı, İlhan, & Çolak, 2020 ) and possibly increasing somatic symptoms ( Barello, Palamenghi, & Graffigna, 2020 ). Previous research has demonstrated that AS is associated with body vigilance ( Zvolensky & Forsyth, 2002 ), and that both are associated with anxiety in response to previous infectious disease outbreaks (e.g., Blakey et al, 2015 ; Wheaton et al, 2012 ).…”