James H Liu, Sarah Y Choi, I-Ching Lee, Angela K-Y Leung, Michelle Lee, Mei-Hua Lin, Darrin Hodgetts, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen
While national parochialism is commonplace, individual differences explain more variance in it than cross-national differences. Global consciousness (GC), a multi-dimensional concept that includes identification with all humanity, cosmopolitan orientation, and global orientation, transcends national parochialism. Across six societies (N = 11,163), most notably the USA and China, individuals high in GC were more generous allocating funds to the other in a dictator game, cooperated more in a one-shot prisoner's dilemma, and differentiated less between the ingroup and outgroup on these actions...
December 4, 2023: Scientific Reports