Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies /

Theodore Samore; Daniel M. T Fessler; Adam Maxwell Sparks; Colin Holbrook; Lene Aarøe; Carmen Gloria Baeza; María Teresa Barbato; Pat Barclay; Renatas Berniūnas; Jorge Contreras-Garduño; Bernardo Costa-Neves; Maria del Pilar Grazioso; Pınar Elmas; Peter Fedor; Ana Maria Fernandez; Regina Fernández-Morales; Leonel Garcia-Marques; Paulina Giraldo-Perez; Pelin Gul; Fanny Habacht; Youssef Hasan; Earl John Hernandez; Tomasz Jarmakowski; Shanmukh Kamble; Tatsuya Kameda; Bia Kim; Tom R Kupfer; Maho Kurita; Norman P Li; Junsong Lu; Francesca R Luberti; María Andrée Maegli; Marinés Mejia; Coby Morvinski; Aoi Naito; Alice Ng’ang’a; Angélica Nascimento de Oliveira; Daniel N Posner; Pavol Prokop; Yaniv Shani; Walter Omar Paniagua Solorzano; Stefan Stieger; Angela Oktavia Suryani; Lynn K. L Tan; Joshua M Tybur; Hugo Viciana; Amandine Visine; Jin Wang; Xiao-Tian Wang

doi:10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0

Title	Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies /
Authors	Samore, Theodore ; Fessler, Daniel M. T ; Sparks, Adam Maxwell ; Holbrook, Colin ; Aarøe, Lene ; Baeza, Carmen Gloria ; Barbato, María Teresa ; Barclay, Pat ; Berniūnas, Renatas ; Contreras-Garduño, Jorge ; Costa-Neves, Bernardo ; del Pilar Grazioso, Maria ; Elmas, Pınar ; Fedor, Peter ; Fernandez, Ana Maria ; Fernández-Morales, Regina ; Garcia-Marques, Leonel ; Giraldo-Perez, Paulina ; Gul, Pelin ; Habacht, Fanny ; Hasan, Youssef ; Hernandez, Earl John ; Jarmakowski, Tomasz ; Kamble, Shanmukh ; Kameda, Tatsuya ; Kim, Bia ; Kupfer, Tom R ; Kurita, Maho ; Li, Norman P ; Lu, Junsong ; Luberti, Francesca R ; Maegli, María Andrée ; Mejia, Marinés ; Morvinski, Coby ; Naito, Aoi ; Ng’ang’a, Alice ; de Oliveira, Angélica Nascimento ; Posner, Daniel N ; Prokop, Pavol ; Shani, Yaniv ; Solorzano, Walter Omar Paniagua ; Stieger, Stefan ; Suryani, Angela Oktavia ; Tan, Lynn K. L ; Tybur, Joshua M ; Viciana, Hugo ; Visine, Amandine ; Wang, Jin ; Wang, Xiao-Tian
DOI	10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0
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Is Part of	Scientific reports.. Springer Nature. 2023, vol. 13, iss. 1, art. no. 4969, p. [1-13].. eISSN 2045-2322
Abstract [eng]	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.
Published	Springer Nature
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2023
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