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Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especial...
Andersson, P. A.; Vartanova, I.; Västfjäll, D.; Tinghög, G.; Strimling, P.; Wu, J.; Hazin, I.; Akotia, C. S.; Aldashev, A.; Andrighetto, G.; Anum, A.When someone violates a social norm, others may think that some sanction would be appropriate. We examine how the experience of emotions like anger and disgust relate to the judged appropriateness of sanctions, in a pre-registered analysis of data from a large-scale study in 56 societies. Across the world, we find that individuals who experience anger and disgust over a norm violation are more likely to endorse...
Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe
Van Doesum, N. J.; Murphy, R. O.; Gallucci, M.; Aharonov-Majar, E.; Athenstaedt, U.; Au, W. T.; Bai, L.; Böhm, R.; Bovina, I.; Buchan, N. R.Humans are social animals, but not everyone will be mindful of others to the same extent. Individual differences have been found, but would social mindfulness also be shaped by one's location in the world? Expecting cross-national differences to exist, we examined if and how social mindfulness differs across countries. At little to no material cost, social mindfulness typically entails small acts of attention o...