Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions

By D. Schmitt, Lidia Alcalay, Melissa Allensworth, Jüri Allik, Lara K. Ault, I. Austers, Kevin L. Bennett, G. Bianchi, Fredrick A. Boholst, Mary Ann Borg Cunen and 121 more. 2004

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

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Differences in Empathic Concern and Perspective Taking Across 63 Countries (2017, methodology): “Drawing on previous studies on regional variation in psychological characteristics (e.g., Rentfrow, Gosling, & Potter, 2008; Schaller & Murray, 2008; Schmitt et al., 2004), our second goal was to examine associations between these aggregate country-level empathy scores with country-level scores on c”
Big Five Traits Related to Short-Term Mating: From Personality to Promiscuity across 46 Nations (2008, methodology): “The samples in this study are from the International Sexuality Description Project (ISDP; Schmitt et al., 2003, 2004).”
Cultural Psychology Today: Innovations and Oversights (2009, methodology): “The ‘recordholding’ paper in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology had to use three pages (Schmitt et al., 2004, pp. 367–369) to list all the authors involved.”
Invariance of adult attachment across gender, age, culture, and socioeconomic status? (2010, background): “Schmitt et al. (2004) found that across 54 countries, stress and economic hardship, as indexed by national per capita income, was strongly associated with romantic attachment styles as assessed with the RQ, and that in resourcelimited countries insecure (both preoccupied and dismissing) attachment…”
Envy and positional bias in the evolutionary psychology of management (2006, neutral): “…sooner than women (Byers and Lewis, 1988), that men desire a higher number of partners throughout their lifetime than women (Buss and Schmitt, 1993; Schmitt et al., 2004), and that men are more likely than women to consent to sex with someone who they have just met (Clarke and Hatfield, 1989).”
Attachment avoidance and the cultural fit hypothesis: A cross-cultural investigation (2010, background): “& Burgess, 2005) report greater attachment avoidance than do individuals from North America (the United States and Canada), and a recent worldwide study on adult attachment concluded that individuals in East Asia are more likely to have preoccupied attachment styles (akin to anxious attachment in th”