The Search for Universal Dimensions of General Beliefs About How the World Functions

By K. Leung, M. Bond, Sharon Reimel de Carrasquel, Carlos Muñoz, Marisela Hernández, F. Murakami, Susumu Yamaguchi. 2002

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Culture‐specific appraisal biases contribute to emotion dispositions (2009, background): “…selfish and unreliable and need to be disciplined) and humanistic assumptions (humans are trustworthy and altruistic; see De St. Aubin, 1996; Tomkins, 1978, for more details on this distinction), beliefs in a just world (Lerner, 1980) or beliefs about how the world functions (Leung et al., 2002).”
Developing and Evaluating the Social Axioms Survey in Eleven Countries (2012, methodology): “To treat each cultural group in a culturally balanced way, the procedure for meta-analysis of factor analysis (Becker, 1996; Leung et al., 2002) was employed.”
Decomposing the construct of ambivalence over emotional expression in a Chinese cultural context (2005, methodology): “Fate control measures whether one believes in the power of external forces such as fate in shaping one’s life outcomes (Leung et al., 2002).”
Culture-Level Dimensions of Social Axioms and Their Correlates across 41 Cultures (2004, background): “Leung et al. (2002) have identified a large number of social axioms scattered throughout the psychological literature, most of which have been contributed by researchers from North America and Western Europe.”
Acquiescent Response Bias as an Aspect of Cultural Communication Style (2004, background): “Leung et al. (2002) identified five dimensions that classified endorsement of social axioms among students in the United States, Japan, Germany, Venezuela, and Hong Kong.”
Taking Situations Seriously (2016, background): “The “objective” nature of situations, like the objectivity of anything else, can be defined only in terms of the consensus—as opposed to the discordances—among socially competent observers1 and in that sense can be considered akin to “social axioms” (Leung et al., 2002).”
Combining social axioms with values in predicting social behaviours (2004, methodology): “The first part of the questionnaire consisted of 60 items taken from the top loading beliefs in the factor analysis of those items used in Hong Kong and Venezuela and then validated in Japan, Germany, and the U.S.A. (Leung et al., 2002).”
Social axioms and values: a cross‐cultural examination (2007, methodology): “To provide an alternative conceptualization, Leung, Bond, and their associates (Leung et al., 2002) have turned to general beliefs, or social axioms, for characterizing culture and its psychological manifestations.”
Conceptualizing and measuring cultures and their consequences: a comparative review of GLOBE's and Hofstede's approaches (2006, background): “There is general acceptance that the value-based framework for measuring cultures has been helpful in deciphering cultures (Leung et al., 2002; Smith et al., 2002; Leung et al., 2005).”
Application of the scenario questionnaire of horizontal and vertical individualism and collectivism to the assessment of cultural distance and cultural fit (2005, unknown): “Cross-cultural psychologists usually measure cultural dimensions—predominantly individualism and collectivism—(Hofstede, 1997; Triandis, 1995), cultural values (Rokeach, 1973; Schwartz, 1992, 1994), social axioms (Leung et al., 2002) and some other culture-related constructs.”
The impact of societal cultural values and individual social beliefs on the perceived effectiveness of managerial influence strategies: a meso approach (2004, result): “Based on empirical results from more than 40 countries, Leung and Bond (2004, in press) extended the results of the earlier Leung et al (2002) study and identified five dimensions – cynicism, reward for application, religiosity, fate control, and social complexity – as pan-cultural dimensions of…”
Lack of Knowledge of a Culture’s Social Axioms and Adaptation Difficulties among Immigrants (2004, methodology): “An 82-item version that was developed in six different cultures (Leung et al., 2002) and employed in a large-scale international study (Bond, Leung, Au, et al., 2003) was used.”
Evaluating Multilevel Models in Cross-Cultural Research (2006, methodology): “Leung and Bond and their collaborators (Leung et al., 2002) initiated a project on social axioms, or general beliefs, that are the basic premises that people endorse and use to guide their behavior in a variety of situations.”
Going beyond self‐esteem to predict life satisfaction: The Chinese case (2006, methodology): “Leung et al. (2002) distinguished the two constructs: locus of control refers to ‘the belief whether one can control the events happening to oneself’, whereas fate control has a broader scope including ‘the additional theme that events are both predetermined and predictable’ (p. 295), which…”
From Culture To Priming Conditions (2008, background): “Matsumoto & Kupperbusch, 2001) and examine whether this measure (e.g., social axioms; Leung et al., 2002) relates with the cultural phenomenon in the predicted direction.”
To prosper, organizational psychology should… adopt a global perspective (2008, background): “Levine and Norenzayan (1999) used walking speed, the speed at which postal workers complete a task, and the accuracy of public clocks to assess pace of life across cultures.”
Cross-Cultural Differences in a Global “Survey of World Views” (2015, background): “Thirty core items (defined based on most consistent univocal associations with the intended dimension) were drawn from Leung et al. (2002).”
Culture's influence on the perception of OCB as in-role or extra-role (2008, background): “In a research project with 7590 university students from 40 cultural groups and 2338 adults from 13 cultural groups ( Leung & Bond, 2004 ), the SAS factors were shown to correlate with a wide variety of societal variables (e.g., per capita GDP, population growth, women’s status) and psychological in”