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Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations.

ABSTRACT: People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice - known as social mindfulness. It is not yet clear whether and how these complex and more simple forms of cooperation relate. Prior work has found that countries with individuals who made more socially mindful choices were linked to a higher country environmental performance - a proxy for complex cooperation. Here we replicated this initial finding in 41 samples around the world, demonstrating the robustness of the association between social mindfulness and environmental performance, and substantially built on it to show this relationship extended to a wide range of complex cooperative indices, tied closely to many current societal issues. We found that greater social mindfulness expressed by an individual was related to living in countries with more social capital, more community participation and reduced prejudice towards immigrants. Our findings speak to the symbiotic relationship between simple and more complex forms of cooperation in societies.

SUBMITTER: Kirkland K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9772369 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations.

Kirkland Kelly K Van Lange Paul A M PAM Van Doesum Niels J NJ Acevedo-Triana Cesar C Amiot Catherine E CE Ausmees Liisi L Baguma Peter P Barry Oumar O Becker Maja M Bilewicz Michal M Boonyasiriwat Watcharaporn W Castelain Thomas T Costantini Giulio G Dimdins Girts G Espinosa Agustín A Finchilescu Gillian G Fischer Ronald R Friese Malte M Gómez Ángel Á González Roberto R Goto Nobuhiko N Halama Peter P Ilustrisimo Ruby D RD Jiga-Boy Gabriela M GM Kuppens Peter P Loughnan Steve S Markovik Marijana M Mastor Khairul A KA McLatchie Neil N Novak Lindsay M LM Onyishi Ike E IE Peker Müjde M Rizwan Muhammad M Schaller Mark M Suh Eunkook M EM Swann William B WB Tong Eddie M W EMW Torres Ana A Turner Rhiannon N RN Vauclair Christin-Melanie CM Vinogradov Alexander A Wang Zhechen Z Yeung Victoria Wai Lan VWL Bastian Brock B

Scientific reports 20221221 1

People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice - known as social mindfulness. It is not yet clear whether and how these complex and more simple forms of cooperation relate. Prior work has found that countries with individuals who made more socially mindful choices were linked to a higher country environmental performance - a proxy for complex cooperation. Here we replicated ...[more]

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Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations.

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Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations.

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