Περίληψη:
Humans are social animals, but not everyone will be mindful of others to
the same extent. Individual differences have been found, but would
social mindfulness also be shaped by one's location in the world?
Expecting cross-national differences to exist, we examined if and how
social mindfulness differs across countries. At little to no material
cost, social mindfulness typically entails small acts of attention or
kindness. Even though fairly common, such low-cost cooperation has
received little empirical attention. Measuring social mindfulness across
31 samples from industrialized countries and regions (n = 8,354), we
found considerable variation. Among selected country-level variables,
greater social mindfulness was most strongly associated with countries'
better general performance on environmental protection. Together, our
findings contribute to the literature on prosociality by targeting the
kind of everyday cooperation that is more focused on communicating
benevolence than on providing material benefits.
Συγγραφείς:
Van Doesum, Niels J.
Murphy, Ryan O.
Gallucci, Marcello and
Aharonov-Majar, Efrat
Athenstaedt, Ursula
Au, Wing Tung
Bai,
Liying
Boehm, Robert
Bovina, Inna
Buchan, Nancy R.
Chen,
Xiao-Ping
Dumont, Kitty B.
Engelmann, Jan B.
Eriksson, Kimmo
and Euh, Hyun
Fiedler, Susann
Friesen, Justin
Gaechter,
Simon
Garcia, Camilo
Gonzalez, Roberto
Graf, Sylvie and
Growiec, Katarzyna
Guimond, Serge
Hrebickova, Martina and
Immer-Bernold, Elizabeth
Joireman, Jeff
Karagonlar, Gokhan and
Kawakami, Kerry
Kiyonari, Toko
Kou, Yu
Kuhlman, D. Michael
and Kyrtsis, Alexandros-Andreas
Lay, Siugmin
Leonardelli,
Geoffrey J.
Li, Norman P.
Li, Yang
Maciejovsky, Boris and
Manesi, Zoi
Mashuri, Ali
Mok, Aurelia
Moser, Karin S. and
Motak, Ladislav
Netedu, Adrian
Pammi, Chandrasekhar
Platow,
Michael J.
Raczka-Winkler, Karolina
Folmer, Christopher P.
Reinders
Reyna, Cecilia
Romano, Angelo
Shalvi, Shaul and
Simao, Claudia
Stivers, Adam W.
Strimling, Pontus
Tsirbas,
Yannis
Utz, Sonja
van der Meij, Leander
Waldzus, Sven and
Wang, Yiwen
Weber, Bernd
Weisel, Ori
Wildschut, Tim and
Winter, Fabian
Wu, Junhui
Yong, Jose C.
Van Lange, Paul A.
M.
