Cooperation and trust across societies during the COVID-19 pandemic

Romano, Angelo and Spadaro, Giuliana and Balliet, Daniel and Joireman, Jeff and Lissa, Caspar Van and Jin, Shuxian and Agostini, Maximilian and Bélanger, Jocelyn J. and Gützkow, Ben and Kreienkamp, Jannis and Leander, N. Pontus and Bağcı, Çiğdem (2021) Cooperation and trust across societies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 52 (7). pp. 622-642. ISSN 0022-0221 (Print) 1552-5422 (Online)

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Abstract

Cross-societal differences in cooperation and trust among strangers in the provision of public goods may be key to understanding how societies are managing the COVID-19 pandemic. We report a survey conducted across 41 societies between March and May 2020 (N = 34,526), and test pre-registered hypotheses about how cross-societal differences in cooperation and trust relate to prosocial COVID-19 responses (e.g., social distancing), stringency of policies, and support for behavioral regulations (e.g., mandatory quarantine). We further tested whether cross-societal variation in institutions and ecologies theorized to impact cooperation were associated with prosocial COVID-19 responses, including institutional quality, religiosity, and historical prevalence of pathogens. We found substantial variation across societies in prosocial COVID-19 responses, stringency of policies, and support for behavioral regulations. However, we found no consistent evidence to support the idea that cross-societal variation in cooperation and trust among strangers is associated with these outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic. These results were replicated with another independent cross-cultural COVID-19 dataset (N = 112,136), and in both snowball and representative samples. We discuss implications of our results, including challenging the assumption that managing the COVID-19 pandemic across societies is best modeled as a public goods dilemma.
Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Çiğdem Bağcı, "PsyCorona Collaboration" yazarları arasında yer almaktadır.
Uncontrolled Keywords: cooperation; COVID-19; culture; institutions; social dilemmas; trust
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Depositing User: Çiğdem Bağcı
Date Deposited: 04 Oct 2022 15:41
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2022 15:41
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/43627

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