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

ABSTRACT: 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 = 784

SUBMITTER: Samore T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10090070 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature