Cooperation and trust across societies during the COVID-19 pandemic
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 hypothe...
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| Language: | English English |
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SAGE Publications Inc.
2021
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/90093/7/90093_Cooperation%20and%20trust%20across%20societies%20during%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic_SCOPUS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/90093/13/90093_Cooperation%20and%20trust%20across%20societies%20during%20the%20COVID-19%20pandemic.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/90093/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022022120988913 https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120988913 |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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