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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2116311119
关键词
COVID-19; partisanship; social norms; vaccines; masks
资金
- UCLA Marvin Hoffenberg Chair of American Politics
- UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine-Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research Award Program
- Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute COVID Enhancement, WISDOM in the age of COVID
- NIH/National Center for Advancing Translation SciencesGrant [UL1TR001881]
- UCLA Center for SMART Health
The adoption of prosocial behavior, specifically mask-wearing, is influenced by the local partisan composition, with Republicans being less likely to wear masks in public as the share of Republicans in their zip codes increases. However, this partisan context does not affect Democratic mask-wearing. These effects are distinct from other contextual factors and do not extend to non-politicized behaviors.
Does local partisan context influence the adoption of prosocial behavior? Using a nationwide survey of 60,000 adults and geographic data on over 180 million registered voters, we investigate whether neighborhood partisan composition affects a publicly observable and politicized behavior: wearing amask. We find that Republicans are less likely to wear masks in public as the share of Republicans in their zip codes increases. Democratic mask wearing, however, is unaffected by local partisan context. Consequently, the partisan gap in mask wearing is largest in Republican neighborhoods, and less apparent in Democratic areas. These effects are distinct from other contextual effects such as variations in neighborhood race, income, or education. In contrast, partisan context has significantly reduced influence on unobservable public health recommendations like COVID-19 vaccination and no influence on nonpoliticized behaviors like flu vaccination, suggesting that differences in mask wearing reflect the publicly observable and politicized nature of the behavior instead of underlying differences in dispositions toward medical care.
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