Concern with COVID-19 pandemic threat and attitudes towards immigrants: the mediating effect of the desire for tightness

• Main Authors: Mula, Silvana, Di Santo, Daniela, Resta, Elena, Bakhtiari, Farin, Baldner, Conrad, Molinario, Erica, Pierro, Antonio, Gelfand, Michele, J., Denison, Emmy, Agostini, Maximilian, Belanger, Jocelyn J, Gutzkow, Ben, Kreienkamp, Jannis, Abakoumkin, Georgios, Abdul Khaiyom, Jamilah Hanum, Leander, N Pontus
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V. 2022
• Subjects: BF Psychology; BF309 Consciousness. Cognition; BF501 Motivation; H Social Sciences (General); HM706 Social structure; HM711 Groups and organizations; RA Public aspects of medicine; RA644.C67 Coronavirus infections. COVID-19 (Disease). COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/95820/7/95820_Concern%20with%20COVID-19%20pandemic%20threat.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/95820/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100028

Tightening social norms is thought to be adaptive for dealing with collective threat yet it may have nega- tive consequences for increasing prejudice. The present research investigated the role of desire for cultural tightness, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, in increasing negative attitudes tow...