Loosening the definition of culture: An investigation of gender and cultural tightness.

To date, the study of cultural tightness has been largely limited to exploring the strictness of social norms and the severity of punishments at the level of nations or regions. However, cultural psychologists concur that humans gather cultural information from more than just their nationality. Gend...

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Autores principales:	Alexandra S. Wormley, Matthew Scott, Kevin Grimm, Norman P. Li, Bryan K.C. Choy, Adam B. Cohen
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Gender Tightness-looseness Culture Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b25097e50bfc4d04b1ebd63a62fd83ad2021-11-28T04:38:52ZLoosening the definition of culture: An investigation of gender and cultural tightness.2666-622710.1016/j.cresp.2021.100021https://doaj.org/article/b25097e50bfc4d04b1ebd63a62fd83ad2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666622721000149https://doaj.org/toc/2666-6227To date, the study of cultural tightness has been largely limited to exploring the strictness of social norms and the severity of punishments at the level of nations or regions. However, cultural psychologists concur that humans gather cultural information from more than just their nationality. Gender is a cultural identity that confers its own social norms. Across three studies using multi-method designs, we find that American women feel the culture surrounding their gender is “tighter” than that for men, and that this relationship is mediated by perceived gender-related threats to the self. However, in a follow-up study in Singapore, we do not find measurement invariance, suggesting future work is necessary to refine the study of gender tightness cross-culturally. We close with an important discussion of understanding how tightness looks across a variety of cultural identities and introduce a novel, qualitative method for the study of the tightness of social norms within groups.Alexandra S. WormleyMatthew ScottKevin GrimmNorman P. LiBryan K.C. ChoyAdam B. CohenElsevierarticleGenderTightness-loosenessCulturePsychologyPsychologyBF1-990ENCurrent Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, Vol 2, Iss , Pp 100021- (2021)
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description	To date, the study of cultural tightness has been largely limited to exploring the strictness of social norms and the severity of punishments at the level of nations or regions. However, cultural psychologists concur that humans gather cultural information from more than just their nationality. Gender is a cultural identity that confers its own social norms. Across three studies using multi-method designs, we find that American women feel the culture surrounding their gender is “tighter” than that for men, and that this relationship is mediated by perceived gender-related threats to the self. However, in a follow-up study in Singapore, we do not find measurement invariance, suggesting future work is necessary to refine the study of gender tightness cross-culturally. We close with an important discussion of understanding how tightness looks across a variety of cultural identities and introduce a novel, qualitative method for the study of the tightness of social norms within groups.
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title	Loosening the definition of culture: An investigation of gender and cultural tightness.
title_short	Loosening the definition of culture: An investigation of gender and cultural tightness.
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Loosening the definition of culture: An investigation of gender and cultural tightness.

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