{"id":35760,"date":"2011-05-28T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/loose-vs-tight-societies-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T21:23:57","slug":"loose-vs-tight-societies-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/loose-vs-tight-societies-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Loose vs. tight societies | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ResearchBlogging.org\"<\/a>A new paper<\/a> in Science<\/em>, Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study<\/a>, is making the media rounds. Here’s NPR<\/a>:<\/p>

…The idea for this study really dates to the 1960s. Back then, an anthropologist decided to evaluate a few dozen obscure cultures and see if he could rank them on a scale from “tight” to “loose.” He defined tight cultures as having a lot of rules, which people violate at their peril. Loose cultures are more relaxed in their expectations, and more forgiving of people who deviate.<\/p>

The Tightness Scale<\/strong><\/p>

…<\/p>

“So for example, you might have been asked, how appropriate is it to curse in the bank or kiss in a public park, or eat or read a newspaper in a classroom? And we were able to derive scores of how constrained, in general situations, they are, versus how much they have latitude in different countries.”<\/p>

…<\/p>

“Some of the cultures that are quite tight in our sample include places like Singapore, Japan, Pakistan,” Gelfand says. “Whereas many loose societies include countries like New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United States.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

The abstract from the paper is a little harder to parse:<\/p>

With data from 33 nations, we ...<\/p><\/blockquote>

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