Scientific Reports (Dec 2022)
Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations
- Kelly Kirkland,
- Paul A. M. Van Lange,
- Niels J. Van Doesum,
- Cesar Acevedo-Triana,
- Catherine E. Amiot,
- Liisi Ausmees,
- Peter Baguma,
- Oumar Barry,
- Maja Becker,
- Michal Bilewicz,
- Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat,
- Thomas Castelain,
- Giulio Costantini,
- Girts Dimdins,
- Agustín Espinosa,
- Gillian Finchilescu,
- Ronald Fischer,
- Malte Friese,
- Ángel Gómez,
- Roberto González,
- Nobuhiko Goto,
- Peter Halama,
- Ruby D. Ilustrisimo,
- Gabriela M. Jiga-Boy,
- Peter Kuppens,
- Steve Loughnan,
- Marijana Markovik,
- Khairul A. Mastor,
- Neil McLatchie,
- Lindsay M. Novak,
- Ike E. Onyishi,
- Müjde Peker,
- Muhammad Rizwan,
- Mark Schaller,
- Eunkook M. Suh,
- William B. Swann,
- Eddie M. W. Tong,
- Ana Torres,
- Rhiannon N. Turner,
- Christin-Melanie Vauclair,
- Alexander Vinogradov,
- Zhechen Wang,
- Victoria Wai Lan Yeung,
- Brock Bastian
Affiliations
- Kelly Kirkland
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
- Paul A. M. Van Lange
- Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Niels J. Van Doesum
- Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology, Leiden University
- Cesar Acevedo-Triana
- School of Psychology, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
- Catherine E. Amiot
- Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
- Liisi Ausmees
- Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu
- Peter Baguma
- Department of Educational, Organizational and Social Psychology, Makerere University
- Oumar Barry
- Department of Psychology, Cheikh Anta Diop University
- Maja Becker
- CLLE, CNRS, Université de Toulouse
- Michal Bilewicz
- Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw
- Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat
- Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University
- Thomas Castelain
- Serra Húnter Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Girona
- Giulio Costantini
- Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca
- Girts Dimdins
- Department of Psychology, University of Latvia
- Agustín Espinosa
- Departamento Académico de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
- Gillian Finchilescu
- Psychology Department, University of the Witwatersrand
- Ronald Fischer
- School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington
- Malte Friese
- Department of Psychology, Saarland University
- Ángel Gómez
- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED
- Roberto González
- Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Nobuhiko Goto
- Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
- Peter Halama
- Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, The Slovak Academy of Sciences
- Ruby D. Ilustrisimo
- Department of Psychology, University of San Carlos
- Gabriela M. Jiga-Boy
- School of Psychology, Swansea University
- Peter Kuppens
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven
- Steve Loughnan
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
- Marijana Markovik
- Institute for Sociological Political and Juridical Research, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
- Khairul A. Mastor
- School of Liberal Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
- Neil McLatchie
- Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University
- Lindsay M. Novak
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago
- Ike E. Onyishi
- School of Psychology, University of Nigeria
- Müjde Peker
- Department of Psychology, MEF University
- Muhammad Rizwan
- Department of Psychology, University of Haripur
- Mark Schaller
- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
- Eunkook M. Suh
- Department of Psychology, Yonsei University
- William B. Swann
- Psychology Department, The University of Texas
- Eddie M. W. Tong
- Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore
- Ana Torres
- Departamento de Psicologia, Federal University of Paraíba
- Rhiannon N. Turner
- School of Psychology, Queens University Belfast
- Christin-Melanie Vauclair
- Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL
- Alexander Vinogradov
- Faculty of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
- Zhechen Wang
- Department of Psychology, Fudan University
- Victoria Wai Lan Yeung
- Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University
- Brock Bastian
- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Abstract People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice – known as social mindfulness. It is not yet clear whether and how these complex and more simple forms of cooperation relate. Prior work has found that countries with individuals who made more socially mindful choices were linked to a higher country environmental performance – a proxy for complex cooperation. Here we replicated this initial finding in 41 samples around the world, demonstrating the robustness of the association between social mindfulness and environmental performance, and substantially built on it to show this relationship extended to a wide range of complex cooperative indices, tied closely to many current societal issues. We found that greater social mindfulness expressed by an individual was related to living in countries with more social capital, more community participation and reduced prejudice towards immigrants. Our findings speak to the symbiotic relationship between simple and more complex forms of cooperation in societies.
