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. ILLUSTRISMO; 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

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y

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 GONZÁLEZNobuhiko GOTO, Peter HALAMA, Ruby D. ILLUSTRISMO, 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

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	22102
Number of pages	12
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	12
Issue number	1
Early online date	21 Dec 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Brock Bastian was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) (grant number DP200101446), Steve Loughnan was supported by the Philip Leverhulme Prize, Catherine Amiot was supported by a Senior Fellowship from the Fund for Research on Health – Québec (FRQS: no. 268393), Roberto González was supported by the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (ANID/FONDAP 15130009), the Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (ANID/FONDAP 15110006) and the Fondecyt Program (ANID/Fondecyt 1201788), Ángel Gómez was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2021-124617OB-I00) and by the ERC Grant agreement no: 101018172, Zhechen Wang was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation fellowship (2021M690681), Nobuhiko Goto was supported by the JSPS KAKENHI (grant number 19KK0063), Girts Dimdins was supported by the Latvian Council of Science (grant number lzp-2018/1-0402), and Michal Bilewicz was supported by the Polish National Science Center Grant Sonata Bis (grant number UMO-2017/26/E/HS6/00129).

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KIRKLAND, K., VAN LANGE, P. A. M., VAN DOESUM, N. J., ACEVEDO-TRIANA, C., AMIOT, C. E., 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., ... BASTIAN, B. (2022). Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 22102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y

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