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Journal Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Year (definitive publication)
2021
Language
English
Country
United States of America
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Abstract
Humans are social animals, but not everyone will be mindful of others to the same extent. Individual differences have been found, but would social mindfulness also be shaped by one's location in the world? Expecting cross-national differences to exist, we examined if and how social mindfulness differs across countries. At little to no material cost, social mindfulness typically entails small acts of attention or kindness. Even though fairly common, such low-cost cooperation has received little empirical attention. Measuring social mindfulness across 31 samples from industrialized countries and regions (n = 8,354), we found considerable variation. Among selected country-level variables, greater social mindfulness was most strongly associated with countries' better general performance on environmental protection. Together, our findings contribute to the literature on prosociality by targeting the kind of everyday cooperation that is more focused on communicating benevolence than on providing material benefits.
Acknowledgements
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Keywords
Social mindfulness,Cross-national differences,Low-cost cooperation
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Psychology - Social Sciences
Funding Records
Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
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ERC-AdG 295707 | Comissão Europeia |
410-2010-1221 | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) |
022.003.040 | Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) |
ANID/FONDAP 15110006 | Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research |
ANID/FONDAL 15130009 | Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies |
RVO 68081740 | Rozvoj Vyzkumne Organizace |
20-01214S | Grant Agency of the Czech Republic |
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