Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe
Niels van Doesum
(1, 2)
,
Ryan Murphy
(3)
,
Marcello Gallucci
(4)
,
Efrat Aharonov-Majar
(5)
,
Ursula Athenstaedt
(6)
,
Wing Tung Au
(7)
,
Liying Bai
(8)
,
Robert Böhm
(9)
,
Inna Bovina
(10)
,
Nancy Buchan
(11)
,
Xiao-Ping Chen
(12)
,
Kitty Dumont
(13)
,
Jan Engelmann
(14)
,
Kimmo Eriksson
(15)
,
Hyun Euh
(16)
,
Susann Fiedler
(17)
,
Justin Friesen
(18)
,
Simon Gächter
(19)
,
Camilo Garcia
(20)
,
Roberto González
(21)
,
Sylvie Graf
(22)
,
Katarzyna Growiec
(23)
,
Serge Guimond
(24)
,
Martina Hřebíčková
(22)
,
Elizabeth Immer-Bernold
(25)
,
Jeff Joireman
(26)
,
Gokhan Karagonlar
(27)
,
Kerry Kawakami
(28)
,
Toko Kiyonari
(29)
,
Yu Kou
(30)
,
D. Michael Kuhlman
(31)
,
Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis
(32)
,
Siugmin Lay
(21)
,
Geoffrey Leonardelli
(33)
,
Norman Li
(34)
,
Yang Li
(35)
,
Boris Maciejovsky
(36)
,
Zoi Manesi
(2)
,
Ali Mashuri
(37)
,
Aurelia Mok
(38)
,
Karin Moser
(39, 40)
,
Ladislav Moták
(41)
,
Adrian Netedu
(42)
,
Chandrasekhar Pammi
(43)
,
Michael Platow
(44)
,
Karolina Raczka-Winkler
(45)
,
Christopher Reinders Folmer
(46, 14)
,
Cecilia Reyna
(47)
,
Angelo Romano
(1)
,
Shaul Shalvi
(14)
,
Cláudia Simão
(48)
,
Adam Stivers
(49)
,
Pontus Strimling
(50)
,
Yannis Tsirbas
(32)
,
Sonja Utz
(51)
,
Leander van Der Meij
(52)
,
Sven Waldzus
(53)
,
Yiwen Wang
(8)
,
Bernd Weber
(45)
,
Ori Weisel
(54)
,
Tim Wildschut
(55)
,
Fabian Winter
(56)
,
Junhui Wu
(57)
,
Jose C. Yong
(58)
,
Paul A. M. van Lange
(2)
1
Universiteit Leiden = Leiden University
2 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
3 UZH - Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich
4 UNIMIB - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca
5 BGU - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
6 Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
7 CUHK - The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong]
8 Fuzhou University [Fuzhou]
9 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
10 Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
11 University of South Carolina [Columbia]
12 University of Washington [Seattle]
13 UNISA - University of South Africa
14 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
15 Stockholm University
16 UMN - University of Minnesota [Twin Cities]
17 Vienna University of Economics and Business
18 University of Manitoba [Winnipeg]
19 UON - University of Nottingham, UK
20 Universidad Veracruzana
21 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
22 Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
23 Institute of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
24 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
25 Sherpany Product Department, Agilentia AG
26 WSU - Washington State University
27 DEÜ - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi = Dokuz Eylül University [Izmir]
28 York University [Toronto]
29 AGU - Aoyama Gakuin University
30 BNU - Beijing Normal University
31 University of Delaware [Newark]
32 NKUA - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
33 University of Toronto
34 SIS - Singapore Management University
35 Nagoya University
36 UC Riverside - University of California [Riverside]
37 UB - Brawijaya University
38 CUHK - City University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong]
39 LSBU - London South Bank University
40 UQ [All campuses : Brisbane, Dutton Park Gatton, Herston, St Lucia and other locations] - The University of Queensland
41 PsyCLÉ - Centre de Recherche en Psychologie de la Connaissance, du Langage et de l'Émotion
42 UAIC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași = Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași
43 University of Allahabad
44 ANU - Australian National University
45 Universität Bonn = University of Bonn
46 UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand
47 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Argentina]
48 Universidade Católica Portuguesa [Porto]
49 Gonzaga University
50 The Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
51 Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien [Tübingen]
52 TU/e - Eindhoven University of Technology [Eindhoven]
53 ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
54 TAU - Tel Aviv University
55 University of Southampton
56 Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods
57 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
58 NTU - Nanyang Technological University [Singapour]
2 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
3 UZH - Universität Zürich [Zürich] = University of Zurich
4 UNIMIB - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca
5 BGU - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
6 Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
7 CUHK - The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong]
8 Fuzhou University [Fuzhou]
9 UCPH - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet
10 Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
11 University of South Carolina [Columbia]
12 University of Washington [Seattle]
13 UNISA - University of South Africa
14 UvA - University of Amsterdam [Amsterdam] = Universiteit van Amsterdam
15 Stockholm University
16 UMN - University of Minnesota [Twin Cities]
17 Vienna University of Economics and Business
18 University of Manitoba [Winnipeg]
19 UON - University of Nottingham, UK
20 Universidad Veracruzana
21 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
22 Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno
23 Institute of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities
24 LAPSCO - Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive
25 Sherpany Product Department, Agilentia AG
26 WSU - Washington State University
27 DEÜ - Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi = Dokuz Eylül University [Izmir]
28 York University [Toronto]
29 AGU - Aoyama Gakuin University
30 BNU - Beijing Normal University
31 University of Delaware [Newark]
32 NKUA - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
33 University of Toronto
34 SIS - Singapore Management University
35 Nagoya University
36 UC Riverside - University of California [Riverside]
37 UB - Brawijaya University
38 CUHK - City University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong]
39 LSBU - London South Bank University
40 UQ [All campuses : Brisbane, Dutton Park Gatton, Herston, St Lucia and other locations] - The University of Queensland
41 PsyCLÉ - Centre de Recherche en Psychologie de la Connaissance, du Langage et de l'Émotion
42 UAIC - Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași = Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași
43 University of Allahabad
44 ANU - Australian National University
45 Universität Bonn = University of Bonn
46 UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand
47 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Argentina]
48 Universidade Católica Portuguesa [Porto]
49 Gonzaga University
50 The Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
51 Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien [Tübingen]
52 TU/e - Eindhoven University of Technology [Eindhoven]
53 ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
54 TAU - Tel Aviv University
55 University of Southampton
56 Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods
57 CAS - Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
58 NTU - Nanyang Technological University [Singapour]
Niels van Doesum
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Ursula Athenstaedt
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Résumé
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.