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The EcoCultural Dataset: A New Resource for Investigating Cultural Variation

The EcoCultural Dataset: A New Resource for Investigating Cultural Variation

Authors :
Wormley, Alexandra
Kwon, Jung Yul
Barlev, Michael
Varnum, Michael
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Open Science Framework, 2022.

Abstract

Scholars interested in cultural diversity have long suggested that similarities and differences across human populations might be understood, at least in part, as stemming from differences in the social and physical ecologies individuals inhabit—culture is an emergent property of many individual-level effects. Here, we describe the EcoCultural Dataset (ECD), the most comprehensive compilation to date of country-level ecological and cultural variables around the globe. ECD covers, covering 220 countries, 9 ecological variables operationalized by 11 statistical metrics (including measures of variability and predictability), and 72 cultural variables (including values, personality traits, fundamental social motives, subjective well-being, tightness-looseness, indices of corruption, social capital, and gender inequality). This rich dataset can be used to identify novel relationships between ecological and cultural variables, to assess the overall relationship between ecology and culture, to explore the consequences of interactions between different ecological variables, and to construct new indices of cultural distance.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........78f52e8e8f3ba82a8a1a4e8978bf53d3
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/r9msf