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“Cultural dimensions theory” is a name used to designate empirically verified and theoretically substantiated systems of ideas about the presence of stable differences between representatives of national cultures (countries) at the level (in most cases) of values (Hofstede, Trompenaars, Schwartz, Inglehart, and others), social norms (Gelfand), and generalized beliefs about the world (Leung & Bond).
Cross-cultural differences are usually recorded as a numerical indicator (for example, mean score, combined score, etc.), which allows one to judge the degree of importance and prevalence of the analyzed values, norms, beliefs in a certain cultural environment in relation to another. At the same time, specific indicators of cultural dimensions, as a rule, are located on a continuum between their extreme positions.
Cultural dimension theories do not currently provide an interconnected...
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Shkurko, Y. (2023). Cultural Dimensions Theory. In: Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_376-1
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