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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- 1. Measuring Subjective Well-being to Compare the Quality of Life of Cultures -- 2. Cultural Syndromes and Subjective Well-being -- 3. Individual Psychological Culture and Subjective Well-being -- II. Cultural Differences in the Definition and Causes of Well-being -- 4. Self, the Hyphen between Culture and Subjective Well-being -- 5. Goals as Cornerstones of Subjective Well-being -- 6. The Pursuit of Happiness and the Realization of Sympathy -- III. Societal Conditions -- 7. Genes, Culture, Democracy, and Happiness -- 8. Money and Happiness -- 9. National Differences in Micro and Macro Worry -- 10. Freedom and Happiness -- IV. Individual Differences -- 11. Age and Sex Differences in Subjective Well-being across Cultures -- 12. Perceived Control and Subjective Well-being across Nations and across the Life Span -- Index

People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as leaving another individual with choice - known as social mindfulness. It is not yet clear whether and how these complex and more simple forms of cooperation relate. Prior work has found that countries with individuals who made more socially mindful choices were linked to a higher country environmental performance - a proxy for complex cooperation. Here we replicated this initial finding in 41 samples around the world, demonstrating the robustness of the association between social mindfulness and environmental performance, and substantially built on it to show this relationship extended to a wide range of complex cooperative indices, tied closely to many current societal issues. We found that greater social mindfulness expressed by an individual was related to living in countries with more social capital, more community participation and reduced prejudice towards immigrants. Our findings speak to the symbiotic relationship between simple and more complex forms of cooperation in societies.