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Predictive Effects of Threat on Prioritization of Communal Over Agentic Values

Predictive Effects of Threat on Prioritization of Communal Over Agentic Values

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The current research examined the role of values in guiding people’s responses to COVID-19. Results from an international study involving 115 countries (N = 61,490) suggest that health and economic threats of COVID-19 evoke different values, with implications for controlling and coping with the pandemic. Specifically, health threats evoked prioriti...

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... matrices are presented in online supplementary materials. The first set of models examined predictive effects of infection and economic threats on values (see Table 1). At individual and country levels, infection threat was associated with greater prioritization of THREATS AND VALUES DURING COVID-19 19 communal values (relative to agentic values), whereas economic threat was associated with reduced prioritization of communal values (relative to agentic values). ...

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