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Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations

Kirkland K 1 , Van Lange PAM 2 , Van Doesum NJ 3 , Acevedo-Triana C 4 , Amiot CE 5 , Ausmees L 6 Show all authors , Baguma P 7 , Barry O 8 , Becker M 9 , Bilewicz M 10 , Boonyasiriwat W 11 , Castelain T 12 , Costantini G 13 , Dimdins G 14 , Espinosa A 15 , Finchilescu G 16 , Fischer R 17 , Friese M 18 , Gómez Á 19 , González R 20 , Goto N 21 , Halama P 22 , Ilustrisimo RD 23 , Jiga-Boy GM 24 , Kuppens P 25 , Loughnan S 26 , Markovik M 27 , Mastor KA 28 , McLatchie N 29 , Novak LM 30 , Onyishi IE 31 , Peker M 32 , Rizwan M 33 , Schaller M 34 , Suh EM 35 , Swann WB 36 , Tong EMW 37 , Torres A 38 , Turner RN 39 , Vauclair CM 40 , Vinogradov A 41 , Wang Z 42 , Yeung VWL 43 , Bastian B 44

Affiliations 

  • 1 Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. kelly.kirkland@unimelb.edu.au
  • 2 Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 3 Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • 4 School of Psychology, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, Tunja, Colombia
  • 5 Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
  • 6 Institute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
  • 7 Department of Educational, Organizational and Social Psychology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
  • 8 Department of Psychology, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal
  • 9 CLLE, CNRS, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
  • 10 Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
  • 11 Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 12 Serra Húnter Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
  • 13 Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
  • 14 Department of Psychology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
  • 15 Departamento Académico de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru
  • 16 Psychology Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • 17 School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
  • 18 Department of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • 19 Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Madrid, Spain
  • 20 Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • 21 Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Japan
  • 22 Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences, The Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 23 Department of Psychology, University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines
  • 24 School of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK
  • 25 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • 26 School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • 27 Institute for Sociological Political and Juridical Research, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
  • 28 School of Liberal Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
  • 29 Faculty of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK
  • 30 Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
  • 31 School of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
  • 32 Department of Psychology, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 33 Department of Psychology, University of Haripur, Haripur, Pakistan
  • 34 Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  • 35 Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
  • 36 Psychology Department, The University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
  • 37 Department of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • 38 Departamento de Psicologia, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil
  • 39 School of Psychology, Queens University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
  • 40 Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 41 Faculty of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine
  • 42 Department of Psychology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • 43 Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, China
  • 44 Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Sci Rep, 2022 Dec 21;12(1):22102.
PMID: 36543793 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y

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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