Climate, Affluence, and Culture (Culture and Psychology)

COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 7
COPYRIGHT......Page 8
CONTENTS......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION......Page 13
1 Creators of Culture......Page 15
Culture and survival......Page 17
Culture in context......Page 18
Climatic Context......Page 19
Economic Context......Page 28
Climato-Economic Niches......Page 34
PART TWO: CLIMATE, CASH, AND WORK......Page 41
2 Climate Colors Life Satisfaction......Page 43
Assessing thermal climate......Page 44
Climatic Demands and Survival Needs......Page 49
Climatic Demands and Life Satisfaction......Page 51
Winters, Summers, and Happiness......Page 53
Winters, Summers, and Suicide......Page 58
Harsh Seasons and Cultural Solutions......Page 61
Propositions......Page 63
Research notes......Page 64
3 Cash Compensates for Climate......Page 69
A climate-cash-satisfaction path?......Page 70
Climato-economic threats and challenges......Page 72
Climatic Demands as Threats......Page 74
Climatic Demands as Challenges......Page 75
Climato-economic Niches of Happiness......Page 77
Climato-economic Niches of Health......Page 84
Climato-economic Niches of Suicide......Page 88
Research notes......Page 90
4 Work Copes with Context......Page 96
Contextualization of work motives......Page 97
Climato-economic niches of child labor......Page 101
Zooming In on the Problem......Page 102
Putting Child Labor in Context......Page 104
Infant Mortality......Page 109
Measuring Work Motives Worldwide......Page 111
Putting Working for Money in Context......Page 113
General Conclusions......Page 115
Research notes......Page 117
PART THREE: SURVIVAL, COOPERATION, AND ORGANIZATION......Page 123
5 Survival, Self-Expression, and Easygoingness......Page 125
Survival-Related Cultures......Page 126
Contextualizing the Triangle of Cultures......Page 131
Climato-economic niches of the triangle of cultures......Page 134
Generalization Study......Page 136
Change Study......Page 139
Research notes......Page 143
6 Cooperation......Page 149
Cooperating in pursuit of survival......Page 150
Climatic Survival and Cooperation......Page 152
Climato-genetic Survival and Cooperation......Page 154
Climato-economic Survival and Cooperation......Page 157
Climato-economic niches of cooperative children......Page 160
Climato-economic niches of democratic leaders......Page 165
Propositions......Page 170
Research notes......Page 171
7 Organization......Page 177
Cultural adaptations of organizations......Page 178
Survival Cultivates Bureaucratic Organization......Page 180
Self-Expression Cultivates Adhocratic Organization......Page 182
Climato-economic niches of organizational structures......Page 184
Climato-economic niches of organizational strategies......Page 188
Nepotism: a 116-nation illustration......Page 192
Research notes......Page 199
PART FOUR: CONCLUSION......Page 207
8 Bird’s-Eye Views of Culture......Page 209
Conglomerate view of culture......Page 211
Adaptational view of culture......Page 214
Climatic Roots?......Page 215
Economic Roots?......Page 217
Climato-economic Roots......Page 218
The Bridging Role of Mortality Salience......Page 221
Strategic view of culture......Page 223
Creating Survival Cultures......Page 225
Creating Cultural Uncertainty......Page 227
Creating Cultural Stability......Page 229
Creating Self-expression Cultures......Page 231
Research notes......Page 234
A prototypical case on the temperate side......Page 237
The most extreme case on the hot side......Page 238
REFERENCES......Page 245
INDEX......Page 257