Beyond ingroup favoritism: Investigating cross-national social preferences across 25 nations.

ABSTRACT: Global challenges such as climate change require cooperation across nations-not only among governments but also among individuals. In an incentivized cross-national study with 6,182 participants from 25 nations, we assessed individuals' prosociality as a core predictor of cooperation toward people from 25 different nations, yielding 625 distinct national dyads. Integrating theoretical approaches, this study examines how both individual perceptions and contextual factors-unique to each national dyad-shape intergroup prosociality. Our findings reveal significant variation in cross-national prosociality beyond ingroup favoritism. Prosociality increased with greater cultural and national stereotype similarity. Individuals from nations with reliable institutions exhibited greater prosociality,

SUBMITTER: Clemens V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12646330 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature