Browsing by Author "Karwowski, Maciej"

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    Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
    (2021) Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Saluja, Supreet; Sorokowski, Piotr; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Karwowski, Maciej; Aavik, Toivo; Akello, Grace; Alm, Charlotte; Amjad, Naumana; Anjum, Afifa; Asao, Kelly; Atama, Chiemezie S.; Atamturk Duyar, Derya; Ayebare, Richard; Batres, Carlota; Bendixen, Mons; Bensafia, Aicha; Bizumic, Boris; Boussena, Mahmoud; Buss, David M.; Butovskaya, Marina; Can, Seda; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Carrier, Antonin; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Chabin, Dominika; Conroy-Beam, Daniel; Contreras-Graduno, Jorge; Varella, Marco Antonio Correa; Cueto, Rosa Maria; Czub, Marcin; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Duyar, Izzet; Ertugrul, Berna; Espinosa, Agustin; Esteves, Carla Sofia; Guemaz, Farida; Hal'amova, Maria; Herak, Iskra; Hromatko, Ivana; Hui, Chin-Ming; Jaafar, Jas Laile; Jiang, Feng; Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Kavcic, Tina; Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen; Kervyn, Nicolas O.; Khilji, Imran Ahmed; Koebis, Nils C.; Kostic, Aleksandra; Lang, Andras; Lennard, Georgina R.; Leon, Ernesto; Lindholm, Torun; Lopez, Giulia; Manesi, Zoi; Martinez, Rocio; McKerchar, Sarah L.; Mesko, Norbert; Misra, Girishwar; Monaghan, Conal; Mora, Emanuel C.; Moya-Garofano, Alba; Musil, Bojan; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Nizharadze, George; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Oleszkiewicz, Anna; Onyishi, Ike Ernest; Ozener, Baris; Pagani, Ariela Francesca; Pakalniskiene, Vilmante; Parise, Miriam; Pazhoohi, Farid; Pejicic, Marija; Pisanski, Annette; Pisanski, Katarzyna; Plohl, Nejc; Popa, Camelia; Prokop, Pavol; Rizwan, Muhammad; Sainz, Mario; Salkicevic, Svjetlana; Sargautyte, Ruta; Sarmany-Schuller, Ivan; Schmehl, Susanne; Shahid, Anam; Shaikh, Rizwana; Sharad, Shivantika; Siddiqui, Razi Sultan; Simonetti, Franco; Tadinac, Meri; Ugalde Gonzalez, Karina; Uhryn, Olga; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Vega Araya, Luis Diego; Widarini, Dwi Ajeng; Yoo, Gyesook; Zadeh, Zainab Fotowwat; Zat'kova, Marta; Zupancic, Maja; Croy, Ilona
    Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual-level factors (sex, age, parasitic history, conservatism, religiosity, and preferred interpersonal distance) and cultural-level factors (regional temperature, parasite stress, regional conservatism, collectivism, and religiosity) in predicting these affective-touching behaviors. Our results indicate that affective touch was most prevalent in relationships with partners and children, and its diversity was relatively higher in warmer, less conservative, and religious countries, and among younger, female, and liberal people. This research allows for a broad and integrated view of the bases of cross-cultural variability in affective touch.
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    Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries
    (2024) Groyecka-Bernard, Agata; Sorokowski, Piotr; Karwowski, Maciej; Roberts, S. Craig; Aavik, Toivo; Akello, Grace; Alm, Charlotte; Amjad, Naumana; Asao, Kelly; Atama, Chiemezie S.; Duyar, Derya Atamturk; Ayebare, Richard; Batres, Carlota; Bensafia, Aicha; Bertoni, Anna; Bizumic, Boris; Boussena, Mahmoud; Buss, David M.; Butovskaya, Marina; Can, Seda; Carrier, Antonin; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Conroy-Beam, Daniel; Varella, Marco Antonio Correa; Croy, Ilona; Cueto, Rosa Maria; Czerwonka, Marta; Czub, Marcin; Donato, Silvia; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Duyar, Izzet; Ertugrul, Berna; Espinosa, Agustin; Esteves, Carla Sofia; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Gajda, Aleksandra; Galewska-Kustra, Marta; Graduno, Jorge Contreras; Guemaz, Farida; Hromatko, Ivana; Hui, Chin-Ming; Herak, Iskra; Iafrate, Raffaella; Jaafar, Jas Laile; Jankowska, Dorota M.; Jiang, Feng; Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Kavcic, Tina; Kervyn, Nicolas O.; Kobis, Nils C.; Lebuda, Izabela; Lennard, Georgina R.; Leon, Ernesto; Lindholm, Torun; Alhabahba, Mohammad Madallh; Manesi, Zoi; McKerchar, Sarah L.; Misra, Girishwar; Monaghan, Conal; Mora, Emanuel C.; Moya-Garofano, Alba; Musil, Bojan; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Nizharadze, George; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Oleszkiewicz, Anna; Omar Fauzee, Mohd Sofian; Onyishi, Ike E.; Ozener, Baris; Pazhoohi, Farid; Perun, Mariia; Pisanski, Annette; Pisanski, Katarzyna; Ponciano, Edna Lucia Tinoco; Popa, Camelia; Prokop, Pavol; Rizwan, Muhammad; Salkicevic, Svjetlana; Schmehl, Susanne; Senyk, Oksana; Sharad, Shivantika; Simonetti, Franco; Tadinac, Meri; Ugalde Gonzalez, Karina; Uhryn, Olha; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Vega, Diego; Weremczuk-Marczynska, Ewa; Widarini, Dwi Ajeng; Yoo, Gyesook; Zupancic, Maja; Anjum, Afifa; Shahid, Anam; Sorokowska, Agnieszka
    Previous studies have found a negative relationship between creativity and conservatism. However, as these studies were mostly conducted on samples of homogeneous nationality, the generalizability of the effect across different cultures is unknown. We addressed this gap by conducting a study in 28 countries. Based on the notion that attitudes can be shaped by both environmental and ecological factors, we hypothesized that parasite stress can also affect creativity and thus, its potential effects should be controlled for. The results of multilevel analyses showed that, as expected, conservatism was a significant predictor of lower creativity, adjusting for economic status, age, sex, education level, subjective susceptibility to disease, and country-level parasite stress. In addition, most of the variability in creativity was due to individual rather than country-level variance. Our study provides evidence for a weak but significant negative link between conservatism and creativity at the individual level (beta = -0.08, p < .001) and no such effect when country-level conservatism was considered. We present our hypotheses considering previous findings on the behavioral immune system in humans.
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    Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries
    (2021) Sorokowski, Piotr; Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Karwowski, Maciej; Groyecka, Agata; Aavik, Toivo; Akello, Grace; Alm, Charlotte; Amjad, Naumana; Anjum, Afifa; Asao, Kelly; Atama, Chiemezie S.; Duyar, Derya Atamturk; Ayebare, Richard; Batres, Carlota; Bendixen, Mons; Bensafia, Aicha; Bizumic, Boris; Boussena, Mahmoud; Buss, David M.; Butovskaya, Marina; Can, Seda; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Carrier, Antonin; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Chabin, Dominika; Conroy-Beam, Daniel; Croy, Ilona; Cueto, Rosa Maria; Czub, Marcin; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Duyar, Izzet; Ertugrul, Berna; Espinosa, Agustin; Estevan, Ignacio; Esteves, Carla Sofia; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Graduno, Jorge Contreras; Guemaz, Farida; Ha Thu, Tran; Halamova, Maria; Herak, Iskra; Horvat, Marina; Hromatko, Ivana; Hui, Chin-Ming; Jaafar, Jas Laile; Jiang, Feng; Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Kavcic, Tina; Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen; Kervyn, Nicolas; Kobis, Nils C.; Kostic, Aleksandra; Krasnodebska, Anna; Lang, Andras; Lennard, Georgina R.; Leon, Ernesto; Lindholm, Torun; Lopez, Gulia; Alhabahba, Mohammad Madallh; Mailhos, Alvaro; Manesi, Zoi; Martinez, Rocio; Martinez, Mario Sainz; McKerchar, Sarah L.; Mesko, Norbert; Misra, Girishwar; Monaghan, Conal; Mora, Emanuel C.; Moya-Garofano, Alba; Musil, Bojan; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Nizharadze, George; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Oleszkiewicz, Anna; Fauzee, Mohd Sofian Omar; Onyishi, Ike E.; Ozener, Baris; Pagani, Ariela Francesca; Pakalniskiene, Vilmante; Parise, Miriam; Pawlowski, Boguslaw; Pazhoohi, Farid; Pejicic, Marija; Pisanski, Annette; Pisanski, Katarzyna; Plohl, Nejc; Ponciano, Edna; Popa, Camelia; Prokop, Pavol; Przepiorka, Aneta; Lam, Truong Quang; Rizwan, Muhammad; Rozycka-Tran, Joanna; Salkicevic, Svjetlana; Sargautyte, Ruta; Sarmany-Schuller, Ivan; Schmehl, Susanne; Shahid, Anam; Shaikh, Rizwana; Sharad, Shivantika; Simonetti, Franco; Tadinac, Meri; Ha, Truong Thi Khanh; Gonzalez, Karina Ugalde; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Vega, Luis Diego; Widarini, Dwi Ajeng; Wojciszke, Bogdan; Yoo, Gyesook; Zadeh, Zainab Fotowwat; Zatkova, Marta; Zupancic, Maja; Sternberg, Robert J.
    The Triangular Theory of Love (measured with Sternberg's Triangular Love Scale - STLS) is a prominent theoretical concept in empirical research on love. To expand the culturally homogeneous body of previous psychometric research regarding the STLS, we conducted a large-scale cross-cultural study with the use of this scale. In total, we examined more than 11,000 respondents, but as a result of applied exclusion criteria, the final analyses were based on a sample of 7332 participants from 25 countries (from all inhabited continents). We tested configural invariance, metric invariance, and scalar invariance, all of which confirmed the cultural universality of the theoretical construct of love analyzed in our study. We also observed that levels of love components differ depending on relationship duration, following the dynamics suggested in the Triangular Theory of Love. Supplementary files with all our data, including results on love intensity across different countries along with STLS versions adapted in a few dozen languages, will further enable more extensive research on the Triangular Theory of Love.