On the nature and importance of cultural tightness-looseness.

By Michele J. Gelfand, L. Nishii, Jana L. Raver. Journal of Applied Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Strategy and Management

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Culture and R 2 (2014, positive): “The country values for our first cultural measure, tightness, are from Gelfand et al. (2011). With support from the National Science Foundation, Gelfand et al.”
Societal threat and cultural variation in the strength of social norms: An evolutionary basis (2015, neutral): “Research has shown, for example, considerable cross-cultural variation in norms for fairness , cooperation, and the willingness to punish to enforce such norms (Balliet & Van Lange, 2013; Ensminger & Henrich, 2014; Gelfand et al., 2011; Henrich et al., 2006, 2010; Herrmann, Thöni, & Gächter, 2008).”
Examining the impact of Culture's consequences: a three-decade, multilevel, meta-analytic review of Hofstede's cultural value dimensions. (2010, background): “For example, Gelfand et al. (2006) formally predicted that variance in individual attributes (e.g., cultural values, attitudes, beliefs, behaviors) would be lower in tighter than in looser societies.”
Motivational mechanisms of employee creativity: A meta-analytic examination and theoretical extension of the creativity literature (2016, methodology): “c Tightness scores were coded from Gelfand et al. (2011). d Self = creativity was self-rated, Non-self = creativity was not self-rated.”
Need Satisfaction and Well-Being (2013, background): “As defined by Gelfand et al. (2006), cultural tightness refers to “the strength of social norms and the degree of sanctioning within societies” (p. 1226).”
Research on Workplace Creativity: A Review and Redirection (2014, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. promising route would be to compare the effect and nature of actor–context interactions across cultures of varying degrees of cultural tightness and looseness (Gelfand et al. 2006).”
The Impact of Culture on Creativity (2015, background): “Another shortcoming of the prevailing treatment of cultural tightness is that data is collected at the country level (Gelfand et al., 2011), thus overlooking regional differences within a country. Indeed, research by Plaut and colleagues (2012) found Boston and San Francisco to exhibit different lev”
Cultural Intelligence and Offshore Outsourcing Success: A Framework of Firm-Level Intercultural Capability (2008, background): “As Gelfand, Nishii, and Raver (2006) succinctly put it: Numerous scholars have bemoaned the fact that the extensive focus on values in cross-cultural research reflects a subjectivist bias, where culture is reduced to factors that exist inside the individual’s heads.”