نبذة مختصرة : It is crucial to understand why people comply with measures to contain viruses and their effects during pandemics. We provide evidence from 35 countries (Ntotal = 12,553) from 6 continents during the COVID-19 pandemic (between 2021 and 2022) obtained via cross-sectional surveys that the social perception of key protagonists on two basic dimensions—warmth and competence—plays a crucial role in shaping pandemic-related behaviors. Firstly, when asked in an open question format, heads of state, physicians, and protest movements were universally identified as key protagonists across countries. Secondly, multiple-group confirmatory factor analyses revealed that warmth and competence perceptions of these and other protagonists differed significantly within and between countries. Thirdly, internal meta-analyses showed that warmth and competence perceptions of heads of state, physicians, and protest movements were associated with support and opposition intentions, containment and prevention behaviors, as well as vaccination uptake. Our results have important implications for designing effective interventions to motivate desirable health outcomes and coping with future health crises and other global challenges. ; Peer reviewed
Relation: Maria-Therese Friehs and Patrick F. Kotzur contributed equally to this manuscript and share first authorship. The order of authors was determined based on their contributions to the overall project in line with the CRediT system. For authors with the same qualitative and quantitative level of contribution, the order of authors was based on the alphabetical order of the surnames. The authors thank Jami Anderson-Smith and Pearl Tshimbalanga for their help programming questionnaires, Hale Nur Arslan for digitalizing the main questionnaires for the Turkish data set, Lusine Grygorian for her comments on the pre-registration, and Maria Olkkonen and Zebuniso Kadirova for their help translating materials.; Friehs , M T , Kotzur , P F , Kraus , C , Schemmerling , M , Herzig , J A , Stanciu , A , Dilly , S , Hellert , L , Hübner , D , Rückwardt , A , Ulizcay , V , Christ , O , Brambilla , M , De keersmaecker , J , Durante , F , Gale , J , Grigoryev , D , Igou , E R , Javakhishvili , N , Kienmoser , D , Nicolas , G , Oldmeadow , J , Rohmer , O , Sætrevik , B , Barbedor , J , Bastias , F , Bjørkheim , S B , Bolatov , A , Duran , N , Findor , A , Götz , F , Graf , S , Hakobjanyan , A , Halkias , G , Hancheva , C , Hřebíčková , M , Hruška , M , Husnu , S , Kadirov , K , Khachatryan , N , Macedo , F G , Makashvili , A , Martínez-Muñoz , M , Mercadante , E , Mesesan Schmitz , L , Michael , A , Mullabaeva , N , Neto , F , Neto , J , Ozturk , M , Paschenko , S , Pietraszkiewicz , A , Psaltis , C , Qiu , Y , Rupar , M , Samekin , A , Schmid , K , Sczesny , S , Sun , Y , Svedholm-Häkkinen , A M , Szymkow , A , Teye-Kwadjo , E , Torres , C V , Vieira , L , Yahiiaiev , I & Yzerbyt , V 2022 , ' Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic : Evidence from 35 countries ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 12 , 21277 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25228-9; ORCID: /0000-0002-6462-6630/work/128032102; 85143558901; fccdf2fd-be93-4b21-bf55-4101f94b0bee; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/354097
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