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Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies
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- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0
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- Theodore Samore, University of California at Los Angeles ,
- Daniel M.T. Fessler, University of California at Los Angeles ,
- Adam Maxwell Sparks ,
- Colin Holbrook, University of California Merced ,
- Lene Aarøe
- Carmen Gloria Baeza, Universidad de Santiago de Chile ,
- María Teresa Barbato, Universidad de Santiago de Chile ,
- Pat Barclay, University of Guelph ,
- Renatas Berniūnas, Vilnius University ,
- Jorge Contreras-Garduño, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico ,
- Bernardo Costa-Neves, University of Lisbon, Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa ,
- Maria del Pilar Grazioso, University of the Valley of Guatemala, Proyecto Aiglé Guatemala ,
- Pınar Elmas, Adnan Menderes University ,
- Peter Fedor, Comenius University ,
- Ana Maria Fernandez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile ,
- Regina Fernández-Morales, Universidad Rafael Landívar, Francisco Marroquin University ,
- Leonel Garcia-Marques, University of Lisbon ,
- Paulina Giraldo-Perez, University of Auckland ,
- Pelin Gul, University of Groningen ,
- Fanny Habacht, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences ,
- Youssef Hasan, Qatar University ,
- Earl John Hernandez, Partido State University ,
- Tomasz Jarmakowski, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun ,
- Shanmukh Kamble, Karnatak University ,
- Tatsuya Kameda, University of Tokyo, Tamagawa University, Hokkaido University ,
- Bia Kim, Pusan National University ,
- Tom R. Kupfer, Nottingham Trent University ,
- Maho Kurita, University of Tokyo ,
- Norman P. Li, Singapore Management University ,
- Junsong Lu, Chinese University of Hong Kong ,
- Francesca R. Luberti, Nipissing University ,
- María Andrée Maegli, University of the Valley of Guatemala ,
- Marinés Mejia, Proyecto Aiglé Guatemala ,
- Coby Morvinski, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ,
- Aoi Naito, University of Tokyo, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ,
- Alice Ng’ang’a, Wilfrid Laurier University ,
- Angélica Nascimento de Oliveira, University of Guelph ,
- Daniel N. Posner, University of California at Los Angeles ,
- Pavol Prokop, Comenius University, Slovak Academy of Sciences ,
- Yaniv Shani, Tel Aviv University ,
- Walter Omar Paniagua Solorzano, University of the Valley of Guatemala ,
- Stefan Stieger, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences ,
- Angela Oktavia Suryani, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia ,
- Lynn K.L. Tan, Singapore Management University ,
- Joshua M. Tybur, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ,
- Hugo Viciana, University of Seville ,
- Amandine Visine, Montpellier SupAgro ,
- Jin Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong ,
- Xiao Tian Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
People vary both in their embrace of their society’s traditions, and in their perception of hazards as salient and necessitating a response. Over evolutionary time, traditions have offered avenues for addressing hazards, plausibly resulting in linkages between orientations toward tradition and orientations toward danger. Emerging research documents connections between traditionalism and threat responsivity, including pathogen-avoidance motivations. Additionally, because hazard-mitigating behaviors can conflict with competing priorities, associations between traditionalism and pathogen avoidance may hinge on contextually contingent tradeoffs. The COVID-19 pandemic provides a real-world test of the posited relationship between traditionalism and hazard avoidance. Across 27 societies (N = 7844), we find that, in a majority of countries, individuals’ endorsement of tradition positively correlates with their adherence to costly COVID-19-avoidance behaviors; accounting for some of the conflicts that arise between public health precautions and other objectives further strengthens this evidence that traditionalism is associated with greater attention to hazards.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 4969 |
| Journal | Scientific Reports |
| Volume | 13 |
| ISSN | 2045-2322 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2023 |
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