Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

National parochialism is ubiquitous across 42 nations around the world

  • Angelo Romano,
  • Matthias Sutter,
  • James H. Liu,
  • Toshio Yamagishi,
  • Daniel Balliet

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24787-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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National parochialism is the tendency to cooperate more with people of the same nation. In a 42-nations study, the authors show that national parochialism is a pervasive phenomenon, present to a similar degree across all the studied nations, and occurs both when decisions are private or public.