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AuthorSamore, Theodore
AuthorFessler, Daniel M. T.
AuthorSparks, Adam Maxwell
AuthorHolbrook, Colin
AuthorAarøe, Lene
AuthorBaeza, Carmen Gloria
AuthorBarbato, María Teresa
AuthorBarclay, Pat
AuthorBerniūnas, Renatas
AuthorContreras-Garduño, Jorge
AuthorCosta-Neves, Bernardo
Authordel Pilar Grazioso, Maria
AuthorElmas, Pınar
AuthorFedor, Peter
AuthorFernandez, Ana Maria
AuthorFernández-Morales, Regina
AuthorGarcia-Marques, Leonel
AuthorGiraldo-Perez, Paulina
AuthorGul, Pelin
AuthorHabacht, Fanny
AuthorHasan, Youssef
AuthorHernandez, Earl John
AuthorJarmakowski, Tomasz
AuthorKamble, Shanmukh
AuthorKameda, Tatsuya
AuthorKim, Bia
AuthorKupfer, Tom R.
AuthorKurita, Maho
AuthorLi, Norman P.
AuthorLu, Junsong
AuthorLuberti, Francesca R.
AuthorMaegli, María Andrée
AuthorMejia, Marinés
AuthorMorvinski, Coby
AuthorNaito, Aoi
AuthorNg'ang'a, Alice
Authorde Oliveira, Angélica Nascimento
AuthorPosner, Daniel N.
AuthorProkop, Pavol
AuthorShani, Yaniv
AuthorSolorzano, Walter Omar Paniagua
AuthorStieger, Stefan
AuthorSuryani, Angela Oktavia
AuthorTan, Lynn K. L.
AuthorTybur, Joshua M.
AuthorViciana, Hugo
AuthorVisine, Amandine
AuthorWang, Jin
AuthorWang, Xiao-Tian
Available date2023-05-15T06:13:54Z
Publication Date2023
Publication NameScientific Reports
ResourceScopus
ISSN2045-2322
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/42695
AbstractPeople 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.
SponsorWe thank Mariam Baghdasaryan, Sarah Durham, Neinel Estapanians, Alexa Henrie, Emma Raffman, and Morgan Speer for research assistance, the UCLA Experimental Biological Anthropology (XBA)s group for feedback on this research, and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable input. T.S. benefited from support by the Templeton Religion Trust/Issachar Fund project “Science and Religion: An Evolutionary Perspective” while this research was conducted.
Languageen
PublisherNature Research
SubjectHuman behaviour
Psychology
TitleGreater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies
TypeArticle
Issue Number1
Volume Number13
dc.accessType Open Access


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