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The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic poses an exceptional challenge for humanity. Because public behaviour is key to curbing the pandemic at an early stage, it is important for social psychological researchers to use their knowledge to promote behaviours that help manage the crisis. Here, we identify human values...
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7361394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32572981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12401 |
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author | Wolf, Lukas J. Haddock, Geoffrey Manstead, Antony S. R. Maio, Gregory R. |
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description | The COVID‐19 pandemic poses an exceptional challenge for humanity. Because public behaviour is key to curbing the pandemic at an early stage, it is important for social psychological researchers to use their knowledge to promote behaviours that help manage the crisis. Here, we identify human values as particularly important in driving both behavioural compliance to government guidelines and promoting prosocial behaviours to alleviate the strains arising from a prolonged pandemic. Existing evidence demonstrates the importance of human values, and the extent to which they are shared by fellow citizens, for tackling the COVID‐19 crisis. Individuals who attach higher importance to self‐transcendence (e.g., responsibility) and conservation (e.g., security) values are likely to be more compliant with COVID‐19 behavioural guidelines and to help others who are struggling with the crisis. Further, believing that fellow citizens share one's values has been found to elicit a sense of connectedness that may be crucial in promoting collective efforts to contain the pandemic. The abstract nature of values, and cross‐cultural agreement on their importance, suggests that they are ideally suited to developing and tailoring effective, global interventions to combat this pandemic. |
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spelling | pubmed-73613942020-07-15 The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic Wolf, Lukas J. Haddock, Geoffrey Manstead, Antony S. R. Maio, Gregory R. Br J Soc Psychol Editors: Laura G. E. Smith and Stephen Gibson The COVID‐19 pandemic poses an exceptional challenge for humanity. Because public behaviour is key to curbing the pandemic at an early stage, it is important for social psychological researchers to use their knowledge to promote behaviours that help manage the crisis. Here, we identify human values as particularly important in driving both behavioural compliance to government guidelines and promoting prosocial behaviours to alleviate the strains arising from a prolonged pandemic. Existing evidence demonstrates the importance of human values, and the extent to which they are shared by fellow citizens, for tackling the COVID‐19 crisis. Individuals who attach higher importance to self‐transcendence (e.g., responsibility) and conservation (e.g., security) values are likely to be more compliant with COVID‐19 behavioural guidelines and to help others who are struggling with the crisis. Further, believing that fellow citizens share one's values has been found to elicit a sense of connectedness that may be crucial in promoting collective efforts to contain the pandemic. The abstract nature of values, and cross‐cultural agreement on their importance, suggests that they are ideally suited to developing and tailoring effective, global interventions to combat this pandemic. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-06-23 2020-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7361394/ /pubmed/32572981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12401 Text en © 2020 The Authors. British Journal of Social Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Psychological Society This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Editors: Laura G. E. Smith and Stephen Gibson Wolf, Lukas J. Haddock, Geoffrey Manstead, Antony S. R. Maio, Gregory R. The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title | The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_full | The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_short | The importance of (shared) human values for containing the COVID‐19 pandemic |
title_sort | importance of (shared) human values for containing the covid‐19 pandemic |
topic | Editors: Laura G. E. Smith and Stephen Gibson |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7361394/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32572981 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12401 |
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