PSY321H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Multinational Corporation, Assertiveness, Mena
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Lecture 8 collectivism: orientation toward ones group and needs and wished to ones group. 1: agency: certain amount of autonomy and independence, 3. Agency assertiveness and collectivism showed no difference in scores. Only dimension saw a gender difference was relatedness. Women across cultures scored higher compared to men. True for all of the cultures they examined. Men are not more independent and women interdependent just maybe women are more interdependent only to the sensitivity and needs of others. Loose cultures norms regarding expectations for ppls behaviour, not clearly defined and conveyed. Fewer and less severe sanctions when violating these norms. Flexbility in the types of behviors considered to be gender are looser in heterogenous cultures. Tight- clear and explicit norms, punishments violating these norms. Females outperform males are hunting and gathering, normadic. Norms and expectations regarding what mena dn womena re supposed to are looser results in reverse of typical or early findings of gender difference.
