TY - JOUR
T1 - Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies
AU - Samore, Theodore
AU - Fessler, Daniel M.T.
AU - Sparks, Adam Maxwell
AU - Holbrook, Colin
AU - Aarøe, Lene
AU - Baeza, Carmen Gloria
AU - Barbato, María Teresa
AU - Barclay, Pat
AU - Berniūnas, Renatas
AU - Contreras-Garduño, Jorge
AU - Costa-Neves, Bernardo
AU - del Pilar Grazioso, Maria
AU - Elmas, Pınar
AU - Fedor, Peter
AU - Fernandez, Ana Maria
AU - Fernández-Morales, Regina
AU - Garcia-Marques, Leonel
AU - Giraldo-Perez, Paulina
AU - Gul, Pelin
AU - Habacht, Fanny
AU - Hasan, Youssef
AU - Hernandez, Earl John
AU - Jarmakowski, Tomasz
AU - Kamble, Shanmukh
AU - Kameda, Tatsuya
AU - Kim, Bia
AU - Kupfer, Tom R.
AU - Kurita, Maho
AU - Li, Norman P.
AU - Lu, Junsong
AU - Luberti, Francesca R.
AU - Maegli, María Andrée
AU - Mejia, Marinés
AU - Morvinski, Coby
AU - Naito, Aoi
AU - Ng’ang’a, Alice
AU - de Oliveira, Angélica Nascimento
AU - Posner, Daniel N.
AU - Prokop, Pavol
AU - Shani, Yaniv
AU - Solorzano, Walter Omar Paniagua
AU - Stieger, Stefan
AU - Suryani, Angela Oktavia
AU - Tan, Lynn K.L.
AU - Tybur, Joshua M.
AU - Viciana, Hugo
AU - Visine, Amandine
AU - Wang, Jin
AU - Wang, Xiao Tian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0
DO - 10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0
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C2 - 37041216
AN - SCOPUS:85152254631
SN - 2045-2322
VL - 13
JO - Scientific Reports
JF - Scientific Reports
IS - 1
M1 - 4969
ER -