Peering into the “Magnum Mysterium” of Culture

By Garriy Shteynberg, Michele J. Gelfand, Kibum Kim. 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The Motivational Force of Descriptive Norms (2015, unknown): “, 2009), harm perception (Shteynberg et al., 2009), conformity (Yamagishi, Hashimoto, & Schug, 2008), cultural identification (Wan, Chiu, Peng, & Tam, 2007; Wan, Chiu, Tam, et al.”
Values, schemas, and norms in the culture–behavior nexus: A situated dynamics framework (2015, background): “Shteynberg, Gelfand, and Kim (2009) found that the greater Korean than American tendency to understand an outcome contextually rather than blaming a focal individual was driven not by cultural differences in personal collectivistic values, but by cultural differences in a perceived descriptive norm…”
Performance-based vs socially supportive culture: A cross-national study of descriptive norms and entrepreneurship (2010, background): “By contrast, descriptive norms exert normative influence on the behavior of individuals within a culture (e.g., Fischer, 2006; Shteynberg et al., 2009).”
Normology: Integrating insights about social norms to understand cultural dynamics (2015, background): “Shteynberg, Gelfand, and Kim (2009) found that the greater tendency for an American than a Korean to blame an individual actor rather than the social context was not carried by value orientations (personal collectivism) but by perceptions of one’s society’s norms.”
Cultural Practices, Norms, and Values (2015, background): “…psychology (we use “norms” for short); norms define how people are thinking (shared reality) and behaving, and they control the behavior of people (Shteynberg et al., 2009); they are, therefore, conceptually related to cultural practices (As Is; Chiu, Gelfand, Yamagishi, Shteynberg, & Wan,…”
Entrepreneurial motivations and intentions: investigating the role of education major (2013, unknown): “Individuals are likely to follow the norms accepted in their reference groups by repeating behaviour, either consciously or unconsciously (Cialdini and Trost, 1998; Fischer, 2006; Shteynberg et al., 2009).”