The social lives of infectious diseases: Why culture matters to COVID-19

R Bayeh, MA Yampolsky, AG Ryder - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Over the course of the year 2020, the global scientific community dedicated considerable
effort to understanding COVID-19. In this review, we discuss some of the findings …

The role of collectivism–individualism in attitudes toward compliance and psychological responses during the COVID-19 pandemic

WS Xiao - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This study examined the role of individual differences in horizontal and vertical individualism
and collectivism, trust and worries, and concerns about COVID-19 in predicting the attitudes …

Cultural defaults in the time of COVID: Lessons for the future

HR Markus, JL Tsai, Y Uchida… - … Science in the …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Five years after the beginning of the COVID pandemic, one thing is clear: The East Asian
countries of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea outperformed the United States in responding …

Vaccination acceptance across cultures: The roles of collectivism, empathy, and homophily

JM Leonhardt, T Pezzuti - Journal of International Marketing, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
How does culture influence vaccination acceptance? This is an important question facing
managers, policy makers, and global health organizations. Even with effective vaccines for …

Collectivism fosters preventive behaviors to contain the spread of COVID‐19: Implications for social marketing in public health

H Cho, Y Guo, C Torelli - Psychology & marketing, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Apart from personal‐and societal‐level factors, we propose that collectivism also plays a
role in the spread of COVID‐19. Results from six studies using both secondary datasets and …

Cultural traits or social norms? Both responsibilism and norms linked to accepting COVID‐19 vaccine

AS English, S Wang, Q Zhang… - Social and Personality …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We studied the factors that influence attitudes toward the COVID‐19 vaccine by testing 1872
people across 29 provinces in China. We investigated an individual trait (responsibilism) …

Impact of national culture on the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic

Y Chen, MI Biswas - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
This study examines how cultural differences can affect the transmission of COVID-19 in
different countries. From a sample of 92 countries, we used cross-country data based on …

Impact of societal culture on Covid-19 morbidity and mortality across countries

R Kumar - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have begun exploring the impact of societal culture on Covid-19 outcomes
(morbidity and mortality). However, emerging findings need integration with prior literature …

Collectivism, individualism and COVID-19 prevention: A cross sectional study of personality, culture and behavior among Canadians

KG Card - Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background Collectivism has been identified as a protective factor against COVID-19–
perhaps due to increased conformity with social norms regarding prevention behaviors …

The interplay between partisanship, forecasted COVID-19 deaths, and support for preventive policies

L Freira, M Sartorio, C Boruchowicz… - Humanities and Social …, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has forced governments around the world to
implement large-scale interventions such as school closures and national lockdowns …