Cooperation and Trust Across Societies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Romano, Angelo; Spadaro, Giuliana; Balliet, Daniel; Joireman, Jeff; Lissa, Caspar van; Jin, Sheng Ji; Agostini, Maximilian; Bélanger, Jocelyn J.; Gützkow, Ben; Kreienkamp, Jannis; Leander, N. Pontus

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“…Some variables from this project have also been used in two other papers. In particular, one paper examined the relation between political ideology, cooperation, and national parochialism 25 , while another paper has examined how cooperation and trust relate with responses to the COVID-19 pandemic 26 . Participants were recruited online through the Harris panel (including members of its third-party providers, see "Methods").…”

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National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world

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Cooperation within and across borders is of paramount importance for the provision of public goods. Parochialism – the tendency to cooperate more with ingroup than outgroup members – limits contributions to global public goods. National parochialism (i.e., greater cooperation among members of the same nation) could vary across nations and has been hypothesized to be associated with rule of law, exposure to world religions, relational mobility and pathogen stress. We conduct an experiment in participants from 42 nations (N = 18,411), and observe cooperation in a prisoner’s dilemma with ingroup, outgroup, and unidentified partners. We observe that national parochialism is a ubiquitous phenomenon: it is present to a similar degree across the nations studied here, is independent of cultural distance, and occurs both when decisions are private or public. These findings inform existing theories of parochialism and suggest it may be an obstacle to the provision of global public goods.

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“…These features could turn out to be helpful in mitigating the ill-effects of the ongoing pandemic, as evidence in the context of Covid-19 indicates (Zhu et al, 2021). It is noteworthy here that civic cooperation and general belief in people's best intentions may not translate into prosocial motivation and behavior required to contain Covid-19 pandemic as Romano et al (2021) find. However, other facets of institutional collectivism could help.…”

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Impact of Societal Culture on Covid-19 Morbidity and Mortality across Countries

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2021

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Researchers have begun exploring the impact of societal culture on Covid-19 outcomes (morbidity and mortality). However, emerging findings need integration with prior literature on societal culture and infectious diseases. Moreover, accumulation of knowledge warrants an update while overcoming certain limitations of samples as well as construct validity concerns. Accordingly, hypotheses are derived based on extant evidence proposing the impact of certain cultural practices on Covid-19 outcomes across countries. These hypotheses are tested using the cultural practice scores from GLOBE studies after controlling for certain covariates identified in literature. Multiple regression results reveal that societal culture significantly explains Covid-19 outcomes beyond the explanation due to control variables. Specifically, power distance and institutional collectivism show negative association with both Covid-19 morbidity and mortality. Additionally, performance orientation shows negative association with Covid-19 morbidity. It appears that power distance may ensure conformity to prescribed behaviors and features of performance orientation may facilitate swift and effective containment of Covid-19 cases. The significance of institutional collectivism—but not in-group collectivism—emerging as the form of collectivism showing negative association with Covid-19 outcomes is also discussed.

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“…In terms of COVID-19related behaviors, in particular, people use their knowledge about social norms to evaluate the moral wrongness of others' violations (Andrews et al, 2020;Habersaat et al, 2020), but the decision-making dynamics can be more complicated when it comes to complying with COVID-19 guidelines themselves. Indeed, recent empirical evidence suggests that even established theoretical frameworks underlying cooperation fail to predict COVID-19-related motivations and behaviors (Romano et al, 2021). Thus, it becomes essential to investigate whether people's moral evaluations and decisions of their own COVID-19 normative behaviors are subject to selfinterest bias, as it can have a considerable impact on societal welfare.…”

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Self-Interest Bias in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between the United States and China

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In the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries attempt to enforce new social norms to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus. A key to the success of these measures is the individual adherence to norms that are collectively beneficial to contain the spread of the pandemic. However, individuals’ self-interest bias (i.e., the prevalent tendency to license own but not others’ self-serving acts or norm violations) can pose a challenge to the success of such measures. The current research examines COVID-19-related self-interest bias from a cross-cultural perspective. Two studies ( N = 1,558) sampled from the United States and China consistently revealed that participants from the United States evaluated their own self-serving acts (exploiting test kits in Study 1; social gathering and sneezing without covering the mouth in public in Study 2) as more acceptable than identical deeds of others, while such self-interest bias did not emerge among Chinese participants. Cultural underpinnings of independent versus interdependent self-construal may influence the extent to which individuals apply self-interest bias to justifications of their own self-serving behaviors during the pandemic.

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Cooperation and Trust Across Societies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 45 publications

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National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world

National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world

Impact of Societal Culture on Covid-19 Morbidity and Mortality across Countries

Self-Interest Bias in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between the United States and China

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