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Description: Our study addresses the research question of whether altruism has exclusively a parochial nature or can be more cosmopolitan in character when people are exposed to the existential threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. Relatedly, we want to examine whether framing the pandemic as a local, national, or global problem affects the overall level of altruism and its character – namely, whether it tends to become more or less parochial or is unaffected. Finally, we want to understand whether greater exposure to the existential threat associated with the pandemic increases or decreases altruism.