Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

  • Jay J. Van Bavel,
  • Aleksandra Cichocka,
  • Valerio Capraro,
  • Hallgeir Sjåstad,
  • John B. Nezlek,
  • Tomislav Pavlović,
  • Mark Alfano,
  • Michele J. Gelfand,
  • Flavio Azevedo,
  • Michèle D. Birtel,
  • Aleksandra Cislak,
  • Patricia L. Lockwood,
  • Robert Malcolm Ross,
  • Koen Abts,
  • Elena Agadullina,
  • John Jamir Benzon Aruta,
  • Sahba Nomvula Besharati,
  • Alexander Bor,
  • Becky L. Choma,
  • Charles David Crabtree,
  • William A. Cunningham,
  • Koustav De,
  • Waqas Ejaz,
  • Christian T. Elbaek,
  • Andrej Findor,
  • Daniel Flichtentrei,
  • Renata Franc,
  • Biljana Gjoneska,
  • June Gruber,
  • Estrella Gualda,
  • Yusaku Horiuchi,
  • Toan Luu Duc Huynh,
  • Augustin Ibanez,
  • Mostak Ahamed Imran,
  • Jacob Israelashvili,
  • Katarzyna Jasko,
  • Jaroslaw Kantorowicz,
  • Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko,
  • André Krouwel,
  • Michael Laakasuo,
  • Claus Lamm,
  • Caroline Leygue,
  • Ming-Jen Lin,
  • Mohammad Sabbir Mansoor,
  • Antoine Marie,
  • Lewend Mayiwar,
  • Honorata Mazepus,
  • Cillian McHugh,
  • John Paul Minda,
  • Panagiotis Mitkidis,
  • Andreas Olsson,
  • Tobias Otterbring,
  • Dominic J. Packer,
  • Anat Perry,
  • Michael Bang Petersen,
  • Arathy Puthillam,
  • Julián C. Riaño-Moreno,
  • Tobias Rothmund,
  • Hernando Santamaría-García,
  • Petra C. Schmid,
  • Drozdstoy Stoyanov,
  • Shruti Tewari,
  • Bojan Todosijević,
  • Manos Tsakiris,
  • Hans H. Tung,
  • Radu G. Umbreș,
  • Edmunds Vanags,
  • Madalina Vlasceanu,
  • Andrew Vonasch,
  • Meltem Yucel,
  • Yucheng Zhang,
  • Mohcine Abad,
  • Eli Adler,
  • Narin Akrawi,
  • Hamza Alaoui Mdarhri,
  • Hanane Amara,
  • David M. Amodio,
  • Benedict G. Antazo,
  • Matthew Apps,
  • F. Ceren Ay,
  • Mouhamadou Hady Ba,
  • Sergio Barbosa,
  • Brock Bastian,
  • Anton Berg,
  • Maria P. Bernal-Zárate,
  • Michael Bernstein,
  • Michał Białek,
  • Ennio Bilancini,
  • Natalia Bogatyreva,
  • Leonardo Boncinelli,
  • Jonathan E. Booth,
  • Sylvie Borau,
  • Ondrej Buchel,
  • C. Daryl Cameron,
  • Chrissie F. Carvalho,
  • Tatiana Celadin,
  • Chiara Cerami,
  • Hom Nath Chalise,
  • Xiaojun Cheng,
  • Luca Cian,
  • Kate Cockcroft,
  • Jane Conway,
  • Mateo Andres Córdoba-Delgado,
  • Chiara Crespi,
  • Marie Crouzevialle,
  • Jo Cutler,
  • Marzena Cypryańska,
  • Justyna Dabrowska,
  • Michael A. Daniels,
  • Victoria H. Davis,
  • Pamala N. Dayley,
  • Sylvain Delouvee,
  • Ognjan Denkovski,
  • Guillaume Dezecache,
  • Nathan A. Dhaliwal,
  • Alelie B. Diato,
  • Roberto Di Paolo,
  • Marianna Drosinou,
  • Uwe Dulleck,
  • Jānis Ekmanis,
  • Arhan S. Ertan,
  • Tom W. Etienne,
  • Hapsa Hossain Farhana,
  • Fahima Farkhari,
  • Harry Farmer,
  • Ali Fenwick,
  • Kristijan Fidanovski,
  • Terry Flew,
  • Shona Fraser,
  • Raymond Boadi Frempong,
  • Jonathan A. Fugelsang,
  • Jessica Gale,
  • E. Begoña Garcia-Navarro,
  • Prasad Garladinne,
  • Oussama Ghajjou,
  • Theofilos Gkinopoulos,
  • Kurt Gray,
  • Siobhán M. Griffin,
  • Bjarki Gronfeldt,
  • Mert Gümren,
  • Ranju Lama Gurung,
  • Eran Halperin,
  • Elizabeth Harris,
  • Volo Herzon,
  • Matej Hruška,
  • Guanxiong Huang,
  • Matthias F. C. Hudecek,
  • Ozan Isler,
  • Simon Jangard,
  • Frederik J. Jørgensen,
  • Frank Kachanoff,
  • John Kahn,
  • Apsara Katuwal Dangol,
  • Oleksandra Keudel,
  • Lina Koppel,
  • Mika Koverola,
  • Emily Kubin,
  • Anton Kunnari,
  • Yordan Kutiyski,
  • Oscar Laguna,
  • Josh Leota,
  • Eva Lermer,
  • Jonathan Levy,
  • Neil Levy,
  • Chunyun Li,
  • Elizabeth U. Long,
  • Chiara Longoni,
  • Marina Maglić,
  • Darragh McCashin,
  • Alexander L. Metcalf,
  • Igor Mikloušić,
  • Soulaimane El Mimouni,
  • Asako Miura,
  • Juliana Molina-Paredes,
  • César Monroy-Fonseca,
  • Elena Morales-Marente,
  • David Moreau,
  • Rafał Muda,
  • Annalisa Myer,
  • Kyle Nash,
  • Tarik Nesh-Nash,
  • Jonas P. Nitschke,
  • Matthew S. Nurse,
  • Yohsuke Ohtsubo,
  • Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello,
  • Cathal O’Madagain,
  • Michal Onderco,
  • M. Soledad Palacios-Galvez,
  • Jussi Palomäki,
  • Yafeng Pan,
  • Zsófia Papp,
  • Philip Pärnamets,
  • Mariola Paruzel-Czachura,
  • Zoran Pavlović,
  • César Payán-Gómez,
  • Silva Perander,
  • Michael Mark Pitman,
  • Rajib Prasad,
  • Joanna Pyrkosz-Pacyna,
  • Steve Rathje,
  • Ali Raza,
  • Gabriel G. Rêgo,
  • Kasey Rhee,
  • Claire E. Robertson,
  • Iván Rodríguez-Pascual,
  • Teemu Saikkonen,
  • Octavio Salvador-Ginez,
  • Waldir M. Sampaio,
  • Gaia C. Santi,
  • Natalia Santiago-Tovar,
  • David Savage,
  • Julian A. Scheffer,
  • Philipp Schönegger,
  • David T. Schultner,
  • Enid M. Schutte,
  • Andy Scott,
  • Madhavi Sharma,
  • Pujan Sharma,
  • Ahmed Skali,
  • David Stadelmann,
  • Clara Alexandra Stafford,
  • Dragan Stanojević,
  • Anna Stefaniak,
  • Anni Sternisko,
  • Augustin Stoica,
  • Kristina K. Stoyanova,
  • Brent Strickland,
  • Jukka Sundvall,
  • Jeffrey P. Thomas,
  • Gustav Tinghög,
  • Benno Torgler,
  • Iris J. Traast,
  • Raffaele Tucciarelli,
  • Michael Tyrala,
  • Nick D. Ungson,
  • Mete S. Uysal,
  • Paul A. M. Van Lange,
  • Jan-Willem van Prooijen,
  • Dirk van Rooy,
  • Daniel Västfjäll,
  • Peter Verkoeijen,
  • Joana B. Vieira,
  • Christian von Sikorski,
  • Alexander Cameron Walker,
  • Jennifer Watermeyer,
  • Erik Wetter,
  • Ashley Whillans,
  • Robin Willardt,
  • Michael J. A. Wohl,
  • Adrian Dominik Wójcik,
  • Kaidi Wu,
  • Yuki Yamada,
  • Onurcan Yilmaz,
  • Kumar Yogeeswaran,
  • Carolin-Theresa Ziemer,
  • Rolf A. Zwaan,
  • Paulo S. Boggio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Understanding collective behaviour is an important aspect of managing the pandemic response. Here the authors show in a large global study that participants that reported identifying more strongly with their nation reported greater engagement in public health behaviours and support for public health policies in the context of the pandemic.