Toomas Niit

TL;DR: This paper identified the effects of culture and sex on mate preferences using samples drawn from 33 countries located on six continents and five islands (N = 9,474) and found that chastity was the mate characteristic on which cultures varied the most.

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: The relationships between social axioms, general beliefs that people hold about the social world, and values, defined as desirable goals for life, were examined in five cultural groups as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This paper found that self-esteem was correlated with congruence between personal values and the prevailing values environment, and self-enhancement values (power, achievement) and openness to change values (self-direction, stimulation) were positively and selftranscendence values (universalism, benevolence) and conservation values (tradition) were negatively related to selfesteem.

TL;DR: This paper found that bilingual and multilingual students have better metalinguistic awareness of their language skills in reading and WM than do students who are monolingual, but who have comparable native language skills.