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"This work provides ways to characterize cultures, and gives researchers a set of lenses for looking at cultures. When researchers know what people value and how they use the axioms, they can predict what people will do in their cultural niche - how they are likely to interact with each other, how they are likely to relate to outsiders, how they are going to react to their jobs, what emotions they are likely to feel in different circumstances, and how are they going to deal with conflict." -- Harry C. Triandis, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Illinois, U.S.A. Positive and negative beliefs about human nature and the social world, the role of fate in life events, and the belief in the existence of a supreme being: social axioms as general beliefs exist both explicitly and implicitly in cultural values and traditions the world over. In **Psychological Aspects of Social Axioms**, an international team of researchers brings new depth to the study of these culture-bound belief systems as they inform interpersonal and organizational behavior, are passed from parents to children and sustained by social institutions, and contribute to both national character and individual p

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Author

Kwok Leung, Michael Harris Bond, editors

Publisher

Springer New York : Imprint: Springer

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781441918895

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Anthropology