Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA23-06170S" target="_blank" >GA23-06170S: Role různých typů sociálních norem ve zlepšování konfliktních meziskupinových vztahů</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Nature Communications

ISSN

2041-1723

e-ISSN

2041-1723

Svazek periodika

15

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

11

Strana od-do

1436

Kód UT WoS článku

001164810100037

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85185327632