Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3600806

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“…Interestingly, recent studies in adults have suggested that during the pandemic there is a shift towards pandemic-specific prosocial behaviors. For example, these studies have demonstrated that the pandemic makes individuals more likely to prioritize society's problems over their own, but less willing to give to non-COVID-19 related causes [37,38]. This interpretation also fits with our finding that Dictator Game giving is higher for COVID-19 related targets.…”

Section: Plos Onesupporting

confidence: 84%

A daily diary study on adolescents’ mood, empathy, and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Adolescence is a formative phase for social development. The COVID-19 pandemic and associated regulations have led to many changes in adolescents' lives, including limited opportunities for social interactions. The current exploratory study investigated the effect of the first weeks of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on Dutch adolescents' (N = 53 with attrition, N = 36 without attrition) mood, empathy, and prosocial behavior. Longitudinal analyses comparing pre-pandemic measures to a three-week peri-pandemic daily diary study showed (i) decreases in empathic concern, opportunities for prosocial actions, and tension, (ii) stable levels of social value orientation, altruism, and dire prosociality, and (iii) increased levels of perspective-taking and vigor during the first weeks of lockdown. Second, this study investigated peri-pandemic effects of familiarity, need, and deservedness on giving behavior. To this end, we utilized novel hypothetical Dictator Games with ecologically valid targets associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Adolescents showed higher levels of giving to a friend (a familiar other, about 51% of the total share), a doctor in a hospital (deserving target, 78%), and individuals with COVID-19 or a poor immune system (targets in need, 69 and 63%, respectively) compared to an unfamiliar peer (39%) This suggests that during the pandemic need and deservedness had a greater influence on adolescent giving than familiarity. Overall, this study demonstrates detrimental effects of the first weeks of lockdown on adolescents' empathic concern and opportunities for prosocial actions, which are important predictors of healthy socio-emotional development. However, adolescents also showed marked resilience and a willingness to benefit others as a result of the lockdown, as evidenced by improved perspective-taking and mood, and high sensitivity to need and deservedness in giving to others.

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Section: Plos Onesupporting

confidence: 84%

A daily diary study on adolescents’ mood, empathy, and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…As an example about immigration, it is possible that the global nature of the coronavirus emergency might have elicited empathy towards other cultures and other ethnic groups, hence inspiring a more positive feeling towards immigrants. This possibility would be consistent with recent data suggesting that increasing the salience of the coronavirus pandemics makes Americans more willing to prioritize society's problems over the own problems (Cappelen et al, 2020). Alternatively, judgement about immigration might have been guided by considerations that public resources have been employed for the care of immigrants who fell ill, hence leading to a more negative attitude towards immigration.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 69%

Opinions about immigration, patriotism, and welfare policies during the coronavirus emergency: The role of political orientation and anxiety

Rigoli

2020

The Social Science Journal

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The coronavirus pandemics represent a dramatic global health emergency; exploring its cultural impact is important. We contribute to this by investigating changes in political opinions following the pandemics (focusing on the UK and the USA; these were examined jointly given their cultural similarity). Online, participants (recruited via the Prolific website) answered (newly created) questions probing how their opinion about immigration, patriotism, and welfare policies changed following the pandemics. Also, they indicated their political orientation and level of anxiety about coronavirus. We found that political orientation influenced opinion change so that left-wing, compared to right-wing, participants reported decreased patriotism and more positive attitude towards immigration and welfare policies. Higher anxiety about coronavirus was associated with larger opinion change in all areas investigated. Finally, right-wing, compared to leftwing, participants reported lower anxiety about coronavirus. These observations suggest that political orientation and anxiety modulated the impact of the coronavirus emergency on political opinions.

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“…Another key advantage of our design is that we can match our newly collected data with participants’ responses to an experimentally validated survey measure of prosociality ( Falk et al, 2018 ) collected two years before, in 2018, as part of an independent study. A potential concern is that prosociality may have changed during the COVID-19 outbreak ( Branas-Garza et al, 2020 , Cappelen et al, forthcoming ) and that this change relates to health behaviors. Our pre-pandemic prosociality measure allows us to address this concern.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%