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Happiness maximization is a WEIRD way of living
Kuba, K.; Kostoula, O.; van Tilburg, W. A. P.; Mosca, O.; Lee, J. H.; Maricchiolo, F.; Kosiarczyk, A.; Kocimska-Bortnowska, A.; Torres, C.; Hitokoto, H.Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously. We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the fundamental question: What is the ideal level of happiness? From a cross-cultural perspective, we propose that the idealization of attaining maximum levels of happiness may be especially characteristic of Western, educated, industrial,...
Measuring collective action intention toward gender equality across cultures
Jurek, P.; Olech, M.; Włodarczyk, A.; Kosakowska-Berezecka, N.; Bosson, J. K.; Bender, M.; Vandello, J. A.; Abuhamdeh, S; Agyemang, C. B.; Akbaş, G.Collective action is a powerful tool for social change and is fundamental to women and girls’ empowerment on a societal level. Collective action towards gender equality could be understood as intentional and conscious civic behaviors focused on social transformation, questioning power relations, and promoting gender equality through collective efforts. Various instruments to measure collective action intentions...
Psychometric properties and correlates of Precarious Manhood Beliefs in 62 nations
Bosson, J. K.; Paweł, J.; Vandello, J. A.; Kosakowska-Berezecka, N.; Olech, M.; Besta, T.; Bender, M.; Hoorens, V.; Becker, M.; Sevincer, A. T.Precarious manhood beliefs portray manhood, relative to womanhood, as a social status that is hard to earn, easy to lose, and proven via public action. Here, we present cross-cultural data on a brief measure of precarious manhood beliefs (the Precarious Manhood Beliefs scale [PMB]) that covaries meaningfully with other cross-culturally validated gender ideologies and with country-level indices of gender equalit...