Globally, these were the five suppressors of the link between traditionalism and COVID public health efforts. In the US, those factors included a lower trust in science, a more significant cultural tightness, described as “stronger more heavily enforced social norms and constraints”- social dominance orientation (SDO), and “greater economic conservatism. They include “precautions promulgated by public health authorities” threatening economic prosperity or interfering with traditional practices, e.g., church or gym attendance central to one’s identity.
To answer this question, the researcher identified several factors that might suppress or reverse that linkage. ĭo perceived tradeoffs between health precautions and other priorities influence the traditionalism ‑ precautions relationship? At least for 16 of the 27 countries evaluated. Using self-reported precautionary behavior (mask, social distancing, etc.) and the “individuals’ general tendency to endorse or reject the traditional norms and values of their society writ large,” the answer is yes. Individuals are influenced by their information “environment” and “social ecologies.” Information, as we have seen, can take on positive or negative moral tones and our behavior can boost or lower our reputational among kith and kin.ĭo COVID ‑ 19 health precautions, as potential manifestations of general pathogen avoidance tendencies, positively correlate with traditionalism across diverse societies?.For disease, there is the risk of “taking insufficient precautions against a hazardous disease versus the social and opportunity costs entailed by being overly cautious.”.Real-world behaviors are “inherently costly” and reflect an individual’s cost-benefit decision.When is the linkage between traditionalism and its avoidance of danger broken? They point out that much of the current literature reflects hypothetical risk, but the pandemic of COVID offers a real-world laboratory. Of course, all things are not equal, and that calculus of cost and benefit is what the researchers sought to uncover. “those who evince greater traditionalism will be more inclined to attempt to diminish the risk of acquiring transmissible disease.” The researchers suggest that all things being equal, Tradition provides the advantage of avoiding a perceived hazard, and there is a social payoff our behavior signals are tribe, our “in-group identity,” which, in turn, facilitates cooperation and reciprocity, at least from other tribe members. The embrace of those injunctions varies among individuals, each applying their weighting of the costs and benefits.
Traditionalism has long been associated with avoiding hazards, from dietary to cultural. You may ask, how did this tradition start? We've kept our balance for many, many years.
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