Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves

Cari M. Pick; Ahra Ko; Douglas T. Kenrick; Adi Wiezel; Alexandra S. Wormley; Edmond Awad; Laith Al-Shawaf; Oumar Barry; Yoella Bereby-Meyer; Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat; Eduard Brandstätter; Suzan Ceylan-Batur; Bryan K. C. Choy; Ana Carla Crispim; Julio Eduardo Cruz; Daniel David; Oana A. David; Renata Pereira Defelipe; Pinar Elmas; Agustín Espinosa; Ana Maria Fernandez; Velichko H. Fetvadjiev; Stefka Fetvadjieva; Ronald Fischer; Silvia Galdi; Oscar Javier Galindo-Caballero; Elena V. Golovina; Galina M. Golovina; Luis Gomez-Jacinto; Sylvie Graf; Igor Grossmann; Pelin Gul; Peter Halama; Takeshi Hamamura; Shihui Han; Lina S. Hansson; Hidefumi Hitokoto; Martina Hřebíčková; Darinka Ilic; Jennifer Lee Johnson; Mane Kara-Yakoubian; Johannes A. Karl; Jinseok P. Kim; Michal Kohút; Julie Lasselin; Hwaryung Lee; Norman P. Li; Anthonieta Looman Mafra; Oksana Malanchuk; Simone Moran; Asuka Murata; Jinkyung Na; Serigne Abdou Lahat Ndiaye; Jiaqing O; Ike E. Onyishi; Eddieson Pasay-an; Muhammed Rizwan; Eric Roth; Sergio Salgado; Elena S. Samoylenko; Tatyana N. Savchenko; Catarina Sette; A. Timur Sevincer; Eric Skoog; Adrian Stanciu; Eunkook M. Suh; Daniel Sznycer; Thomas Talhelm; Fabian O. Ugwu; Ayse K. Uskul; Irem Uz; Jaroslava Varella Valentova; Marco Antonio Correa Varella; Liuqing Wei; Danilo Zambrano; Michael E. W. Varnum

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Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves

Cari M. Pick^*, Ahra Ko, Douglas T. Kenrick, Adi Wiezel, Alexandra S. Wormley, Edmond Awad, Laith Al-Shawaf, Oumar Barry, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Eduard Brandstätter, Suzan Ceylan-Batur, Bryan K. C. Choy, Ana Carla Crispim, Julio Eduardo Cruz, Daniel David, Oana A. David, Renata Pereira Defelipe, Pinar Elmas, Agustín EspinosaAna Maria Fernandez, Velichko H. Fetvadjiev, Stefka Fetvadjieva, Ronald Fischer, Silvia Galdi, Oscar Javier Galindo-Caballero, Elena V. Golovina, Galina M. Golovina, Luis Gomez-Jacinto, Sylvie Graf, Igor Grossmann, Pelin Gul, Peter Halama, Takeshi Hamamura, Shihui Han, Lina S. Hansson, Hidefumi Hitokoto, Martina Hřebíčková, Darinka Ilic, Jennifer Lee Johnson, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Johannes A. Karl, Jinseok P. Kim, Michal Kohút, Julie Lasselin, Hwaryung Lee, Norman P. Li, Anthonieta Looman Mafra, Oksana Malanchuk, Simone Moran, Asuka Murata, Jinkyung Na, Serigne Abdou Lahat Ndiaye, Jiaqing O, Ike E. Onyishi, Eddieson Pasay-an, Muhammed Rizwan, Eric Roth, Sergio Salgado, Elena S. Samoylenko, Tatyana N. Savchenko, Catarina Sette, A. Timur Sevincer, Eric Skoog, Adrian Stanciu, Eunkook M. Suh, Daniel Sznycer, Thomas Talhelm, Fabian O. Ugwu, Ayse K. Uskul, Irem Uz, Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Liuqing Wei, Danilo Zambrano, Michael E. W. Varnum^*

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How does psychology vary across human societies? The fundamental social motives framework adopts an evolutionary approach to capture the broad range of human social goals within a taxonomy of ancestrally recurring threats and opportunities. These motives—self-protection, disease avoidance, affiliation, status, mate acquisition, mate retention, and kin care—are high in fitness relevance and everyday salience, yet understudied cross-culturally. Here, we gathered data on these motives in 42 countries (N = 15,915) in two cross-sectional waves, including 19 countries (N = 10,907) for which data were gathered in both waves. Wave 1 was collected from mid-2016 through late 2019 (32 countries, N = 8,998; 3,302 male, 5,585 female; Mage = 24.43, SD = 7.91). Wave 2 was collected from April through November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic (29 countries, N = 6,917; 2,249 male, 4,218 female; Mage = 28.59, SD = 11.31). These data can be used to assess differences and similarities in people’s fundamental social motives both across and within cultures, at different time points, and in relation to other commonly studied cultural indicators and outcomes.

Original language	English
Article number	499
Number of pages	12
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	9
Issue number	1
Early online date	16 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01579-w
Publication status	Published - 01 Dec 2022

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Pick, C. M., Ko, A., Kenrick, D. T., Wiezel, A., Wormley, A. S., Awad, E., Al-Shawaf, L., Barry, O., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Boonyasiriwat, W., Brandstätter, E., Ceylan-Batur, S., Choy, B. K. C., Crispim, A. C., Cruz, J. E., David, D., David, O. A., Defelipe, R. P., Elmas, P., ... Varnum, M. E. W. (2022). Fundamental social motives measured across forty-two cultures in two waves. Scientific Data, 9(1), Article 499. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01579-w

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