Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081740%3A_____%2F24%3A00584438" target="_blank" >RIV/68081740:_____/24:00584438 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44999-5" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44999-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44999-5" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41467-024-44999-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries
Original language description
The emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which societies generally have strong norms), specific social norms (e.g. stealing, hand washing), and norms about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 countries recorded before and in the early stages following the emergence of COVID-19. Using variation in disease intensity, we shed light on the mechanisms predicting changes in social norm measures. We find evidence that, after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, hand washing norms increased while tightness and punishing frequency slightly decreased but observe no evidence for a robust change in most other norms. Thus, at least in the short term, our findings suggest that cultures are largely stable to pandemic threats except in those norms, hand washing in this case, that are perceived to be directly relevant to dealing with the collective threat.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-06170S" target="_blank" >GA23-06170S: The Role of Distinct Types of Social Norms in Improving Conflictual Intergroup Relations</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Communications
ISSN
2041-1723
e-ISSN
2041-1723
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
1436
UT code for WoS article
001164810100037
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85185327632