Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Sci Rep. 2022 Dec 21;12(1):22102. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-25538-y.
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.
人们每天都在以各种方式进行合作，从大规模的减缓气候变化的贡献到简单的选择行为，如留给他人选择——这被称为社会意识。目前还不清楚这些复杂和更简单的合作形式是否以及如何相关。之前的研究发现，那些个体做出更多社会意识选择的国家与更高的国家环境绩效相关——这是复杂合作的一个指标。在这里，我们在全球 41 个样本中复制了这一初步发现，证明了社会意识和环境绩效之间的关联具有稳健性，并在此基础上进一步证明，这种关系延伸到了广泛的复杂合作指标，这些指标与许多当前的社会问题密切相关。我们发现，个体表现出更多的社会意识与生活在社会资本更多、社区参与度更高和对移民偏见更少的国家有关。我们的研究结果反映了社会中简单和更复杂形式的合作之间的共生关系。
