1. Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations
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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, Kirkland, K, Van Lange, P, Van Doesum, N, Acevedo-Triana, C, Amiot, C, Ausmees, L, Baguma, P, Barry, O, Becker, M, Bilewicz, M, Boonyasiriwat, W, Castelain, T, Costantini, G, Dimdins, G, Espinosa, A, Finchilescu, G, Fischer, R, Friese, M, Gómez, Á, González, R, Goto, N, Halama, P, Ilustrisimo, R, Jiga-Boy, G, Kuppens, P, Loughnan, S, Markovik, M, Mastor, K, Mclatchie, N, Novak, L, Onyishi, I, Peker, M, Rizwan, M, Schaller, M, Suh, E, Swann, W, Tong, E, Torres, A, Turner, R, Vauclair, C, Vinogradov, A, Wang, Z, Yeung, V, Bastian, B, Peker, Müjde, Social Psychology, IBBA, A-LAB, and Amsterdam Sustainability Institute
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SDG 16 - Peace ,Social Psychology ,Emigrants and Immigrants ,immigrant ,climate protection ,Ecology, Environment ,Verhalten ,psychology ,migration ,Ökologie und Umwelt ,community participation controlled study ,Natur ,ddc:150 ,Klimaschutz ,Humans ,Ökologie ,controlled study ,human ,ddc:577 ,Migration, Sociology of Migration ,Social sciences, sociology, anthropology ,clinical article ,mindfulne ,Multidisciplinary ,Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ,Ecology ,Nachhaltigkeit ,behavior ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,article ,nature ,soziale Einstellung ,organization ,sustainability ,prejudice ,Justice and Strong Institutions ,social attitude ,Ciências Naturais::Outras Ciências Naturais [Domínio/Área Científica] ,Psychologie ,social capital ,ddc:300 ,community participation ,Sozialpsychologie ,Vorurteil ,Mindfulness ,EVS ,EVS 2017 (ZA7500 v5.0.0) - 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.
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- 2022
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