Authors
Evert Van de Vliert, Paul AM Van Lange
Publication date
2020/4/1
Source
Current opinion in psychology
Volume
32
Pages
43-46
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Latitudinal psychology uses global positioning to describe and explain cultures.
- Mindsets and practices differ geographically by latitude rather than longitude.
- Latitude-related ecological habitats shape the inhabitants’ mindsets and practices.
- Impactful latitudinal stressors include cold, heat, irregular rainfall, and pathogens.
It is an unmistakable fact of life that animals and plants function differently at lower and higher latitudes with distinct temperatures and rainfall. No less unmistakable are the opposite directions of these latitudinal gradients above and below the equator. Therefore, it would be surprising if there were no opposite north–south gradients in human functioning in the northern and southern hemispheres. And indeed, recent publications and projects have started to validate, integrate, and explain such north–south gradients in cognitive ability, creativity, ingroup–outgroup dynamics, aggressiveness …
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E Van de Vliert, PAM Van Lange - Current opinion in psychology, 2020