Who prioritizes the economy over health? The role of political orientation and human values
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2021-04-16
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Coelho, Gabriel Lins de Holanda
Hanel, Paul H. P.
Vilar, Roosevelt
Monteiro, Renan Pereira
Cardoso, Fadja Jairles Vieira
Gouveia, Valdiney Veloso
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One of the main challenges governments faced during the Covid-19 pandemic was to balance economic considerations with protecting the health of people (i.e., economic vs humanitarian motives). In the present study (N = 296), we investigated whether human values, political orientation, and fear of Covid-19 predicted economic and humanitarian motives. We found that people holding self-enhancement and normative values, had lower levels of Covid-19 fear, and were more right-leaning in terms of their political orientation, tended to prioritize the economy. In contrast, people valuing normative values less, interactive values more, reported higher levels of Covid-19 related fear, and were more left-leaning, tended to prioritize the health of people. Importantly, values explained variance above and beyond political orientation and fear of Covid-19. Together, our findings highlight the importance of values in decision making.
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COVID-19 , Decision making , Economic motives , Fear of Covid-19 , Human values , Humanitarian motives , Political orientation
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Coelho, G. L. d. H., Hanel, P. H. P., Vilar, R., Monteiro, R. P., Cardoso, F. J. V. and Gouveia, V. V. (2021) 'Who prioritizes the economy over health? The role of political orientation and human values', Personality and Individual Differences, 179, 110890 (5 pp). doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110890