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Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfac...
Kuba, K.; Yeung, J. C.; Capaldi, C.; Lun, V. M. -C.; Torres, T.; van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Bond, M. H.; Zelenski, J. M.; Haas, B. W.; Park, J.In this paper, we introduce the concept of ‘societal emotional environment’: the emotional climate of a society (operationalized as the degree to which positive and negative emotions are expressed in a society). Using data collected from 12,888 participants across 49 countries, we show how societal emotional environments vary across countries and cultural clusters, and we consider the potential importance of th...
Personal life satisfaction as a measure of societal happiness is an individuali...
Kuba, K.; Park, J.; Kocimska-Zych, A.; Kosiarczyk, A.; Selim, H. A.; Wojtczuk-Turek, A.; Haas, B. W.; Uchida, Y.; Torres, T; Capaldi, C.; Bond, M. H.Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data...
Psychologizing indexes of societal progress: Accounting for cultural diversity ...
Kuba, K.; Capaldi, C.; Vivian, M. - C. L.; Vauclair, C.- M.; Bond, H.; Dominguez-Espinosa, A.; Uchida, Y.Since the Second World War, the dominating paradigm of societal development has focused on economic growth. While economic growth has improved the quality of human life in a variety of ways, we posit that the identification of economic growth as the primary societal goal is culture-blind because preferences for developmental pathways likely vary between societies. We argue that the cultural diversity of develop...
Catching up with wonderful women: the women-are-wonderful effect is smaller in ...
Kuba, K.; Capaldi, C.; van Tilburg, W.; Lipp, O. V.; Bond, M. H.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Manickam, L. S. S.; Dominguez-Espinosa, A.; Torres, T; Lun, V. M.-C.Inequalities between men and women are common and well-documented. Objective indexes show that men are better positioned than women in societal hierarchies—there is no single country in the world without a gender gap. In contrast, researchers have found that the women-are-wonderful effect—that women are evaluated more positively than men overall—is also common. Cross-cultural studies on gender equality reveal t...
Be careful where you smile: culture shapes judgments of intelligence and honest...
Kuba, K.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Capaldi, C.; Lun, V. M.-C.; Bond, M. H.; Dominguez-Espinosa, A.; Torres, T; Lipp, O. V.; Manickam, L. S. S.; Xing, C.Smiling individuals are usually perceived more favorably than non-smiling ones—they are judged as happier, more attractive, competent, and friendly. These seemingly clear and obvious consequences of smiling are assumed to be culturally universal, however most of the psychological research is carried out in WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) and the influence of culture on ...