Latitudinal Psychology: An Ecological Perspective on Creativity, Aggression, Happiness, and Beyond ...
Are there systematic trends around the world in levels of creativity, aggressiveness, life satisfaction, individualism, trust, and suicidality? This article suggests a new field, latitudinal psychology, that delineates differences in such culturally shared features along northern and southern rather...
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SAGE Journals
2019
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.4639805 https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Latitudinal_Psychology_An_Ecological_Perspective_on_Creativity_Aggression_Happiness_and_Beyond/4639805 |
| Summary: | Are there systematic trends around the world in levels of creativity, aggressiveness, life satisfaction, individualism, trust, and suicidality? This article suggests a new field, latitudinal psychology, that delineates differences in such culturally shared features along northern and southern rather than eastern and western locations. In addition to geographical, ecological, and other explanations, we offer three metric foundations of latitudinal variations: replicability (latitudinal gradient repeatability across hemispheres), reversibility (north-south gradient reversal near the equator), and gradient strength (degree of replicability and reversibility). We show that aggressiveness decreases whereas creativity, life satisfaction, and individualism increase as one moves closer to either the North or South Pole. We also discuss the replicability, reversibility, and gradient strength of (a) temperatures and rainfall as remote predictors and (b) pathogen prevalence, national wealth, population density, and ... |
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