Historical rice farming explains faster mask use during early days of China's COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19
China
Coronavirus
Mask Use
Norm tightness
Rice farming
Journal
Current research in ecological and social psychology
ISSN: 2666-6227
Titre abrégé: Curr Res Ecol Soc Psychol
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9918335087006676
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2022
2022
Historique:
received:
14
09
2021
revised:
03
01
2022
accepted:
10
01
2022
entrez:
31
1
2022
pubmed:
1
2
2022
medline:
1
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
In the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, we observed mask use in public among 1,330 people across China. People in regions with a history of farming rice wore masks more often than people in wheat regions. Cultural differences persisted after taking into account objective risk factors such as local COVID cases. The differences fit with the emerging theory that rice farming's labor and irrigation demands made societies more interdependent, with tighter social norms. Cultural differences were strongest in the ambiguous, early days of the pandemic, then shrank as masks became nearly universal (94%). Separate survey and internet search data replicated this pattern. Although strong cultural differences lasted only a few days, research suggests that acting just a few days earlier can reduce deaths substantially.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35098192
doi: 10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100034
pii: S2666-6227(22)00001-6
pmc: PMC8761258
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100034Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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