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Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study

Overview of attention for article published in Science, May 2011
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Mentioned by

news
104 news outlets
book_reviews
1 book reviewer
blogs
27 blogs
policy
9 policy sources
twitter
59 X users
facebook
3 Facebook pages
wikipedia
12 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
17 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
4 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
2008 Mendeley
citeulike
17 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures: A 33-Nation Study
Published in
Science, May 2011
DOI 10.1126/science.1197754
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Authors

Michele J. Gelfand, Jana L. Raver, Lisa Nishii, Lisa M. Leslie, Janetta Lun, Beng Chong Lim, Lili Duan, Assaf Almaliach, Soon Ang, Jakobina Arnadottir, Zeynep Aycan, Klaus Boehnke, Pawel Boski, Rosa Cabecinhas, Darius Chan, Jagdeep Chhokar, Alessia D’Amato, Montse Ferrer, Iris C. Fischlmayr, Ronald Fischer, Marta Fülöp, James Georgas, Emiko S. Kashima, Yoshishima Kashima, Kibum Kim, Alain Lempereur, Patricia Marquez, Rozhan Othman, Bert Overlaet, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Karl Peltzer, Lorena R. Perez-Florizno, Larisa Ponomarenko, Anu Realo, Vidar Schei, Manfred Schmitt, Peter B. Smith, Nazar Soomro, Erna Szabo, Nalinee Taveesin, Midori Toyama, Evert Van de Vliert, Naharika Vohra, Colleen Ward, Susumu Yamaguchi

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 26 1%
United Kingdom 10 <1%
Germany 8 <1%
Japan 5 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
Canada 4 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Portugal 2 <1%
Other 18 <1%
Unknown 1925 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 438 22%
Student > Master 226 11%
Researcher 209 10%
Student > Bachelor 174 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 112 6%
Other 402 20%
Unknown 447 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 569 28%
Business, Management and Accounting 294 15%
Social Sciences 223 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 83 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 61 3%
Other 241 12%
Unknown 537 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1063. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 August 2026.
All research outputs
#18,241
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Science
#873
of 93,989 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32
of 162,807 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#1
of 487 outputs
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