Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies

Theodore Samore; Daniel M.T. Fessler; Adam Maxwell Sparks; Colin Holbrook; Lene Aarøe; Carmen Gloria Baeza; María Teresa Barbato; Pat Barclay; Renatas Berniūnas; Jorge Contreras-Garduño; Bernardo Costa-Neves; Maria del Pilar Grazioso; Pınar Elmas; Peter Fedor; Ana Maria Fernandez; Regina Fernández-Morales; Leonel Garcia-Marques; Paulina Giraldo-Perez; Pelin Gul; Fanny Habacht; Youssef Hasan; Earl John Hernandez; Tomasz Jarmakowski; Shanmukh Kamble; Tatsuya Kameda; Bia Kim; Tom R. Kupfer; Maho Kurita; Norman P. Li; Junsong Lu; Francesca R. Luberti; María Andrée Maegli; Marinés Mejia; Coby Morvinski; Aoi Naito; Alice Ng’ang’a; Angélica Nascimento de Oliveira; Daniel N. Posner; Pavol Prokop; Yaniv Shani; Walter Omar Paniagua Solorzano; Stefan Stieger; Angela Oktavia Suryani; Lynn K.L. Tan; Joshua M. Tybur; Hugo Viciana; Amandine Visine; Jin Wang; Xiao Tian Wang

doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0

Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies

Theodore Samore, Daniel M.T. Fessler, Adam Maxwell Sparks, Colin Holbrook, Lene Aarøe, Carmen Gloria Baeza, María Teresa Barbato, Pat Barclay, Renatas Berniūnas, Jorge Contreras-Garduño, Bernardo Costa-Neves, Maria del Pilar Grazioso, Pınar Elmas, Peter Fedor, Ana Maria Fernandez, Regina Fernández-Morales, Leonel Garcia-Marques, Paulina Giraldo-Perez, Pelin Gul, Fanny HabachtYoussef Hasan, Earl John Hernandez, Tomasz Jarmakowski, Shanmukh Kamble, Tatsuya Kameda, Bia Kim, Tom R. Kupfer, Maho Kurita, Norman P. Li, Junsong Lu, Francesca R. Luberti, María Andrée Maegli, Marinés Mejia, Coby Morvinski, Aoi Naito, Alice Ng’ang’a, Angélica Nascimento de Oliveira, Daniel N. Posner, Pavol Prokop, Yaniv Shani, Walter Omar Paniagua Solorzano, Stefan Stieger, Angela Oktavia Suryani, Lynn K.L. Tan, Joshua M. Tybur, Hugo Viciana, Amandine Visine, Jin Wang, Xiao Tian Wang

Tel Aviv University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	4969
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	13
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0
State	Published - 1 Dec 2023

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Samore, T., Fessler, D. M. T., Sparks, A. M., Holbrook, C., Aarøe, L., Baeza, C. G., Barbato, M. T., Barclay, P., Berniūnas, R., Contreras-Garduño, J., Costa-Neves, B., del Pilar Grazioso, M., Elmas, P., Fedor, P., Fernandez, A. M., Fernández-Morales, R., Garcia-Marques, L., Giraldo-Perez, P., Gul, P., ... Wang, X. T. (2023). Greater traditionalism predicts COVID-19 precautionary behaviors across 27 societies. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 4969. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29655-0

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