Cultural psychology

How what people disclose, and what they ask others for, varies with a society’s rules for relationships.

Moves it sheds light on

Our reading. None of these fields tests a move inside a circle.

  • Reveal

    Links how much people disclose to close friends with how freely relationships form and end where they live.

    Schug et al. · 2010

In the catalogue

  1. Culture and social support

    Kim et al. · 2008

    Review

  2. Relational Mobility Explains Between- and Within-Culture Differences in Self-Disclosure to Close Friends

    Schug et al. · 2010

    SurveyCautions: Self-report only

  3. Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat

    Thomson et al. · 2018

    Survey16,939 people in 39 societiesCautions: Self-report only

  4. Sensing the presence of gods and spirits across cultures and faiths

    Luhrmann et al. · 2021

    SurveyMore than 2,000 participants in five countriesCautions: Self-report only