Climato-economic pressures on cultural identity
This chapter explores the relationship between the ambient temperatures of thermal climate and the under- versus over-representation of several identity features—covering both personal attributes and personality characteristics—in populations around the world. To clarify the issue, take the attribut...
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ftunigroningenpu:oai:pure.rug.nl:publications/f2be7ad7-e71d-4ded-bbfa-6f9d47e11ff3 2024-06-02T08:11:51+00:00 Climato-economic pressures on cultural identity Van de Vliert, Evert Church, A. Timothy 2017 https://hdl.handle.net/11370/f2be7ad7-e71d-4ded-bbfa-6f9d47e11ff3 https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/f2be7ad7-e71d-4ded-bbfa-6f9d47e11ff3 eng eng Praeger https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/f2be7ad7-e71d-4ded-bbfa-6f9d47e11ff3 urn:ISBN:978-1-4408-4103-3 info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Van de Vliert , E 2017 , Climato-economic pressures on cultural identity . in A T Church (ed.) , The Praeger handbook of personality across cultures : Evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts of personality . vol. 3 , Praeger , Santa Barbara, CA , pp. 117-148 . climato-economic biogeography planetary psychology bookPart 2017 ftunigroningenpu 2024-05-07T20:11:31Z This chapter explores the relationship between the ambient temperatures of thermal climate and the under- versus over-representation of several identity features—covering both personal attributes and personality characteristics—in populations around the world. To clarify the issue, take the attribute of gender. If men were to be more cold-blooded and less warm-blooded than women, there would be an under-representation of men and an over-representation of women toward the tropical equator. Obviously, and luckily, that is not the case. Now take creativity as an important component of the personality characteristic of openness to experience. As detailed later, the density of Nobel laureates, technological pioneers, and innovative entrepreneurs increases toward both the North Pole and the South Pole. It seems hard to make sense of this intriguing anomaly without taking into account the spatial severity of cold and hot seasons. Book Part North Pole South pole University of Groningen research database North Pole South Pole |
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This chapter explores the relationship between the ambient temperatures of thermal climate and the under- versus over-representation of several identity features—covering both personal attributes and personality characteristics—in populations around the world. To clarify the issue, take the attribute of gender. If men were to be more cold-blooded and less warm-blooded than women, there would be an under-representation of men and an over-representation of women toward the tropical equator. Obviously, and luckily, that is not the case. Now take creativity as an important component of the personality characteristic of openness to experience. As detailed later, the density of Nobel laureates, technological pioneers, and innovative entrepreneurs increases toward both the North Pole and the South Pole. It seems hard to make sense of this intriguing anomaly without taking into account the spatial severity of cold and hot seasons. |
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Van de Vliert , E 2017 , Climato-economic pressures on cultural identity . in A T Church (ed.) , The Praeger handbook of personality across cultures : Evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts of personality . vol. 3 , Praeger , Santa Barbara, CA , pp. 117-148 . |
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