Susumu Yamaguchi

TL;DR: The differences across cultures in the enforcement of conformity may reflect their specific histories and advances knowledge that can foster cross-cultural understanding in a world of increasing global interdependence and has implications for modeling cultural change.

TL;DR: A study of self-construal involving 5 cultures shows that differences between these cultures are captured mostly by the extent to which people see themselves as acting as independent agents, whereas gender differences are best summarized by the whether people regard themselves as emotionally related to others.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report two studies that examined whether pancultural dimensions based on general beliefs, or social axioms, can be identified in persons from five cultures in Hong Kong and Venezuela.

TL;DR: Leung et al. as mentioned in this paper revealed a five-dimensional structure of social axioms across individuals from five cultural groups across 41 nations and revealed the culture level factor structure and its correlates across 41 cultures.

TL;DR: Psychometric findings across diverse cultural context attest to the robustness of the P Scale and to positivity as a basic disposition.