Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism
Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism
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DOI：
10.1098/rspb.2022.0978
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发表时间：
2022-09-14
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4.7
通讯作者：
Murray, Damian R.
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作者：
Kerry, Nicholas;Al-Shawaf, Laith;Murray, Damian R.
在堕胎、移民和性等社会问题上的态度差异造成了巨大的分歧，理解它们的起源是人类行为科学面临的最重要的任务之一。尽管父母身份和照顾孩子的动机在心理上具有明显的重要性，但研究人员直到最近才开始调查它们对社会和政治态度的影响。因为社会保守的价值观表面上优先考虑安全，稳定和家庭价值观，我们假设，更多地投资于父母的照顾可能会使社会保守的政策更具吸引力。研究1（预先登记; n = 376）和2（n = 1924）发现了父母身份素数的条件实验效应的新证据，例如，强烈参与育儿操纵的人表现出社会保守主义的增加。研究3（n = 2610，来自10个国家的新数据）和4（n = 426 444，世界价值观调查数据）发现的证据表明，父母和父母照顾的动机与地球仪周围的社会保守主义增加。此外，年龄和社会保守主义之间的全球积极联系大多是由父母身份造成的。这些发现支持了父母身份和父母照顾动机增加社会保守主义的假设。
Differences in attitudes on social issues such as abortion, immigration and sex are hugely divisive, and understanding their origins is among the most important tasks facing human behavioural sciences. Despite the clear psychological importance of parenthood and the motivation to provide care for children, researchers have only recently begun investigating their influence on social and political attitudes. Because socially conservative values ostensibly prioritize safety, stability and family values, we hypothesized that being more invested in parental care might make socially conservative policies more appealing. Studies 1 (preregistered; n = 376) and 2 (n = 1924) find novel evidence of conditional experimental effects of a parenthood prime, such that people who engaged strongly with a childcare manipulation showed an increase in social conservatism. Studies 3 (n = 2610, novel data from 10 countries) and 4 (n = 426 444, World Values Survey data) find evidence that both parenthood and parental care motivation are associated with increased social conservatism around the globe. Further, most of the positive association globally between age and social conservatism is accounted for by parenthood. These findings support the hypothesis that parenthood and parental care motivation increase social conservatism.