Institutt for kommunikasjon og kultur

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 94 s. 104981-104981 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2026.104981

Nature Human Behaviour Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-026-02525-1

Abstract Experts widely agree that East Asian cultures are more collectivistic than Western cultures. Yet 76 survey studies found no reliable difference. Our explanation is that the most-used surveys are contaminated with ‘warm fuzzy’ items, which describe warmth and prosociality towards everyone near and far. We argue that collectivism is better understood as ‘responsibilism’, which emphasizes responsibilities in close relationships. A survey found that many cultural psychologists expect collectivistic cultures to agree with warm fuzzy items. Then we developed a responsibilism scale and tested 12,247 people in 100 cultures. Results showed large cultural differences ( d  = 3.98 [2.50, 5.43]) that were previously obscured by flawed measurement. Responsibilism predicted differences across societies (such as family ties and corruption) and individuals (social class and politics) that most earlier scales missed. This study offers a solution to previous puzzling findings by distinguishing warm fuzzy prosociality from responsibilism and introducing a scale with stronger predictive validity.

Animal and Vegan Advocacy: The Psychological Science and Practice of A s. 46-54 Doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003596837-4

Journal of Destination Marketing & Management 42 Doi: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212571X26000697

Digital nomads (DNs) blend work and travel, creating opportunities and management challenges for destinations. Drawing on 571 participants in China and the United States, an expanded version of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) is used, examining life satisfaction, policy expectation, and travel experience as context relevant antecedents. PLS-SEM shows that policy expectation is the strongest correlate of intention, while perceived behavioral control (PBC) has the larger association with current DN status. Permutation multi-group analysis identifies four significant country differences: travel experience-PBC and PBC-current status associations are stronger in the Chinese sample, while PBC-intention and intention-current status associations are stronger in the US sample. The findings contextualize TPB for digital nomadism and show how motivational, experiential, and policy-related associations vary across country contexts. They help destinations tailor positioning, onboarding, mobility services, and community integration while managing local impacts.

European Journal of Social Psychology Doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70106

Creativity and flourishing are core aims of higher education (HE) institutions and government initiatives globally. Large‐scale projects have linked creativity and flourishing with cultural diversity, yet their associations with majority‐group acculturation (i.e., how members of dominant culture groups adopt minority‐cultural elements and/or maintain their national culture) remain unexplored. We tested relationships between majority‐group acculturation and seven components of creativity and flourishing in UK (Study 1, N = 323) and Chinese (Study 2, N = 174) majority‐group university students and a three‐wave, English majority‐group longitudinal sample (Study 3, N at Time 1 = 219). Results found integration (i.e., adopting other cultures while maintaining one's own) predicted higher cognitive flexibility (Study 1), meaning‐in‐life (Studies 1 and 2) and quality of interpersonal relationships (Studies 1 and 2), while cultural adoption predicted higher cognitive flexibility, curiosity‐exploration and flourishing over time (Study 3). Findings align majority‐group acculturation with key priorities of HE and government programmes.