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

• Main Authors: WORMLEY, Alexandra S., SCOTT, Matthew, GRIMM, Kevin, LI, Norman P., CHOY, Bryan K. C., COHEN, Adam B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Gender; Tightness-looseness; Culture; Psychology; Gender and Sexuality; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3580; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4838/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S2666622721000149_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...