Integrating more than 40 years of studies on locus of control (LOC), this meta-analysis
investigated whether (a) the magnitude of the relationship between LOC and psychological …

Peter B. Smith was born near Colchester, UK, in 1937, and obtained his PhD from
Cambridge University in 1962. After working at Leeds University, he joined the University of …

As the speed of globalization accelerates, world cultures are more closely connected to
each other than ever before. But what exactly is culture? It seems to be involved in all …

Religion and spirituality have often been associated with the higher subjective well-being of
individuals, but departures from this relationship have also been noted in previous research …

This paper examines why fundamental freedoms are so unevenly distributed across the
earth. Climato-economic theorizing proposes that humans adapt needs, stresses, and …

Much research in the last several decades has examined the social, political, and economic
factors that predict terrorism, yet to date, there has been little attention to cultural factors and …

A little over 20 years ago, an ecological approach to social perception was proposed to draw
attention to issues overlooked in contemporary social cognition research (McArthur & Baron …

Why do we think about and interact with other people in the particular ways that we do?
Might these thoughts and actions be contemporary products of our long-ago evolutionary …

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for individual social behavior, B, that
incorporates the contributions of both the personality of the actor, P, and the relevant …

An emerging literature highlights the relationship between competitive intensity and the
likelihood that two rival firms will form an alliance. Placing this argument in an international …