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Love, culture, and well-being: How values moderate the link between relationshi...
Śmieja, M.; Walczak, A.; Cacek, J.; Górski, M. R.; Bond, M. H.; Gjoneska, B.; Hussain, M. A.; Joshanloo, M.; Szumowska, E.; Teyssier, J.This study examines the interplay between relationship status, well-being, and values across 57 countries. We hypothesized that individuals in romantic relationships would report higher well-being (measured as happiness, harmony, and meaning in life) compared to singles. We anticipated that in cultures prioritizing relationships, the benefits of being coupled would be amplified, while in societies emphasizing a...
A cross-cultural study on the association between societal conditions and the i...
Lou, X.; Haas, B. W.; Zelenski, J. M.; Xing, C.; Vignoles, V. L.; Vauclair, C.-M.; van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Uchida, Y.; Teyssier, J.; Torres, C.Although most people aspire to be happy, the extent to which people pursue or idealize experiencing high levels of happiness does differ according to sociocultural context. This study was designed to elucidate which societal and cultural indicators are the most conducive to fostering high levels of happiness idealization. To accomplish this goal, we measured levels of happiness idealization for 11,170 participa...
Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal
Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á.; Uskul, A. K.; Rodríguez-Bailón, R.; Willis, G. B.; Vignoles, V. L.; Kuba, K.; Adamovic, M.; Akotia, C. S.; Albert, I.; Appoh, L.Past research has shown that economic inequality shapes individuals’ self-construals. However, it has been unclear which dimensions of self-construal are associated with and affected by economic inequality. A correlational (Study 1: N = 264) and an experimental study (Study 2: N = 532) provided converging evidence linking perceived economic inequality with two forms of independent (vs. interdependent) self-cons...
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...
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 ...