Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness.

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dc.citation.issue1893
dc.citation.volume379
dc.contributor.authorZhang RJ
dc.contributor.authorLiu JH
dc.contributor.authorLee M
dc.contributor.authorLin M-H
dc.contributor.authorXie T
dc.contributor.authorChen SX
dc.contributor.authorLeung AK-Y
dc.contributor.authorLee I-C
dc.contributor.authorHodgetts D
dc.contributor.authorValdes EA
dc.contributor.authorChoi SY
dc.coverage.spatialEngland
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-27T20:26:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:45:18Z
dc.date.available2023-11-13
dc.date.available2023-11-27T20:26:19Z
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:45:18Z
dc.date.issued2024-01-01
dc.description.abstractGlobal consciousness (GC), encompassing cosmopolitan orientation, global orientations (i.e. openness to multicultural experiences) and identification with all humanity, is a relatively stable individual difference that is strongly associated with pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours, less ingroup favouritism and prejudice, and greater pandemic prevention safety behaviours. Little is known about how it is socialized in everyday life. Using stratified samples from six societies, socializing institution factors correlating positively with GC were education, white collar work (and its higher income) and religiosity. However, GC also decreased with increasing age, contradicting a 'wisdom of elders' transmission of social learning, and not replicating typical findings that general prosociality increases with age. Longitudinal findings were that empathy-building, network-enhancing elements like getting married or welcoming a new infant, increased GC the most across a three-month interval. Instrumental gains like receiving a promotion (or getting a better job) also showed positive effects. Less intuitively, death of a close-other enhanced rather than reduced GC. Perhaps this was achieved through the ritualized management of meaning where a sense of the smallness of self is associated with growth of empathy for the human condition, as a more discontinuous or opportunistic form of culture-based learning. This article is part of the theme issue 'Evolution and sustainability: gathering the strands for an Anthropocene synthesis'.
dc.format.pagination20220263-
dc.identifier.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37952613
dc.identifier.citationZhang RJ, Liu JH, Lee M, Lin M-H, Xie T, Chen SX, Leung AK-Y, Lee I-C, Hodgetts D, Valdes EA, Choi SY. (2024). Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness.. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 379. 1893. (pp. 20220263-).
dc.identifier.doi10.1098/rstb.2022.0263
dc.identifier.eissn1471-2970
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.issn0962-8436
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70796
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherThe Royal Society
dc.relation.isPartOfPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
dc.rights(c) 2023 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectcosmopolitanism
dc.subjectcultural evolution
dc.subjectdeath
dc.subjectglobal consciousness
dc.subjectidentification with all humanity
dc.subjectsocial learning
dc.titleContinuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness.
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id484218
pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Humanities and Social Sciences
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