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Concern with COVID-19 Pandemic Threat and Attitudes Towards Immigrants: The Mediating Effect of the Desire for Tightness

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Dec 2021

Tightening social norms is thought to be adaptive for dealing with collective threat yet it may have negative consequences for increasing prejudice. The present research investigated the role of desire for cultural tightness, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, in increasing negative attitudes towards immigrants. We used participant-level data from...

Figure 1. Perceived health risk versus perceived economic risk due to...

Figure 2. Mean difference between perceived health risk and perceived...

Figure 3. Density plots for compliance with preventive health behaviors...

Figure 4. Positive interaction between health and economic perceived...

Multilevel regression modeling: preventive health behaviors. Reporting...

Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID 19 preventive measures than perceived health risk

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May 2021

This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative samples were collected from 24 countries (N = 25,435). The main predictors were (1) perceived risk to contract coronavirus, (...

Lockdown Lives: A longitudinal study of inter-relationships amongst feelings of loneliness, social contacts and solidarity during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020

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Nov 2020

In this work, we study how social contacts and feelings of solidarity shape experiences of loneliness during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020. We draw on cross-national data, collected across four time points between mid-March until early May 2020. We situate our work within the public debate on these issues and discuss to what extent the public...

The Political Dimension of COVID-19 Health-Protective Behavior in the United States

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Nov 2020

According to health behavior theories, perceived vulnerability to a health threat and perceived effectiveness of recommended health-protective behaviors determine motivation to follow these recommendations. Because the U.S. President Trump and U.S. conservative politicians downplayed the risk and seriousness of contracting COVID-19 and the effectiv...

Trust in government and its associations with health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Jun 2020

Previous studies suggested that public trust in government is vital for implementations of social policies that rely on public's behavioural responses. This study examined associations of trust in government regarding COVID-19 control with recommended health behaviours and prosocial behaviours. Data from an international survey with representative...