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SUBMITTER: Mandel A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4684201 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20151218 12
Cultural tightness-looseness, a dimension which describes the strength, multitude, and clarity of social norms in a culture, has proved significant in explaining differences between cultures. Although several studies have compared different cultures on this domain, this study is the first that targets both within-country differences and across-time variation in tightness-looseness. Using data from two nationally representative samples of Estonians, we found that the general tightness level had c ...[more]