Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies

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 orien...

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Published in:	Scientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 4969
Main 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
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 11-04-2023 Nature Publishing Group Nature Portfolio
Subjects:	631/477 631/477/2811 Avoidance behavior Behavior COVID-19 Culture Evolution Humanities and Social Sciences Humans Motivation multidisciplinary Pandemics Pathogens Political psychology Political science Public Health Science Science (multidisciplinary) Social sciences Threats Traditionalism Traditions
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Summary:	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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ISSN:	2045-2322 2045-2322
DOI:	10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0