Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations

K. Kirkland; P.A.M. Van Lange; N.J. Van Doesum; C. Acevedo-Triana; C.E. Amiot; L. Ausmees; P. Baguma; O. Barry; M. Becker; M. Bilewicz; W. Boonyasiriwat; T. Castelain; G. Costantini; G. Dimdins; A. Espinosa; G. Finchilescu; R. Fischer; M. Friese; Á. Gómez; R. González; N. Goto; P. Halama; R.D. Ilustrisimo; G.M. Jiga-Boy; P. Kuppens; S. Loughnan; M. Markovik; K.A. Mastor; N. McLatchie; L.M. Novak; I.E. Onyishi; M. Peker; M. Rizwan; M. Schaller; E.M. Suh; W.B. Swann; E.M.W. Tong; A. Torres; R.N. Turner; C.-M. Vauclair; A. Vinogradov; Z. Wang; V.W.L. Yeung; B. Bastian

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y

Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations

K. Kirkland, P.A.M. Van Lange, N.J. Van Doesum, C. Acevedo-Triana, C.E. Amiot, L. Ausmees, P. Baguma, O. Barry, M. Becker, M. Bilewicz, W. Boonyasiriwat, T. Castelain, G. Costantini, G. Dimdins, A. Espinosa, G. Finchilescu, R. Fischer, M. Friese, Á. Gómez, R. GonzálezN. Goto, P. Halama, R.D. Ilustrisimo, G.M. Jiga-Boy, P. Kuppens, S. Loughnan, M. Markovik, K.A. Mastor, N. McLatchie, L.M. Novak, I.E. Onyishi, M. Peker, M. Rizwan, M. Schaller, E.M. Suh, W.B. Swann, E.M.W. Tong, A. Torres, R.N. Turner, C.-M. Vauclair, A. Vinogradov, Z. Wang, V.W.L. Yeung, B. Bastian

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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
Pages (from-to)	22102
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	12
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y
Publication status	Published - 21 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).

Funders	Funder number
Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research	ANID/FONDAP 15110006
Fondecyt Program
Fund for Research on Health	268393
Polish National Science Center Grant Sonata Bis	UMO-2017/26/E/HS6/00129
European Research Council	101018172
Australian Research Council	DP200101446
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science	19KK0063
Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico	1201788
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation	2021M690681
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación	PID2021-124617OB-I00
Latvijas Zinātnes Padome	lzp-2018/1-0402
Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social	ANID/FONDAP 15130009

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Humans
Mindfulness
Emigrants and Immigrants

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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), 22102. Article 22102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y

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Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations

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