Plamen Akaliyski
A5053020421- Cultural Differences and Values
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Law in Society and Culture
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Capital and Networks
- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Employment and Welfare Studies
Keio University
2020-2023
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
2022-2023
Maastricht University
2023
Lingnan University
2023
National Research University Higher School of Economics
2018-2022
University of Oslo
2017-2020
United States Congress
2018
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2017
Cross-cultural research in social and behavioral sciences has expanded hugely over the past 50 years, but progress is currently hampered by a lack of appreciation profoundly differing principles goals two distinct traditions. The first main variant cross-cultural psychology (CCP), focusing on how culture shapes individual psychological functioning. second was pioneered Hofstede. It studies societal differences, we name it “comparative culturology” (CC). We explain these paradigms differ. CCP...
Nations have been questioned as meaningful units for analyzing culture due to their allegedly limited variance-capturing power and large internal heterogeneity. Against this skepticism, we argue that is by definition a collective phenomenon focusing on individual differences contradicts the very concept of culture. Through “miracle aggregation,” can eliminate random noise arbitrary variation at level in order distill central cultural tendencies nations. Accordingly, depict national...
Abstract The European Union (EU) is considered to be a unique economic and political union that integrates most countries. This article focuses on the cultural aspect of integration, which has been increasingly debated over course deepening widening integration in context legitimation crisis EU. Among main goals EU promote certain values, raises question whether it efficient (or enabled) reducing value gaps among participating World polity institutional isomorphism theories suggest values...
Soon after the collapse of Soviet-type communism in Central and Eastern Europe, a new geopolitical division began to reshape continent. Our study demonstrates that this newly emerging divide has been underpinned by corresponding cultural divergence, which “emancipative values” are most powerful marker. Using European Values Study/World Survey 1990 2014, we find former Iron Curtain no longer constitutes boundary because ex-communist states joined Union have converging with West’s strong...
The series of recent crises (EURO, refugees, backsliding, Brexit) challenge the self-portrayal European Union (EU) as a community shared values. Against this backdrop, we analyse Values Study data from 1990 till 2020 to assess level and change in publics’ acceptance EU’s officially propagated values: personal freedom, individual autonomy, social solidarity, ethnic tolerance, civic honesty, gender equality liberal democracy. We find that EU publics support these values strongly increasingly...
Western theories of modernization and cultural change suppose that socioeconomic development fosters support for freedom equality in all societies. Cultural relativism “Asian Values” thesis challenge such universal human by arguing East Asian societies’ legacies predispose them to a distinct pathway societal development. This study uses nationally representative data from the World Values Survey European Study test whether hystorically Protestant societies hold six domains aspirations as...
Nations have been questioned as meaningful units for analyzing culture due to their limited variance-capturing power and large internal heterogeneity. Against this skepticism, we argue that is by definition a collective phenomenon focusing on individual differences contradicts the very concept of culture. Through “miracle aggregation,” can eliminate random noise arbitrary variation at level in order distil central cultural tendencies nations. Accordingly, depict national gravitational field...
An important question in understanding the war Ukraine is whether Russian President Putin's claim that Russians and Ukrainians are 'one people' or statement made by European Union Commission von der Leyen, echoing Ukrainian government's position, of us' receives more support. In our contribution, we assess societal values endorsed Ukraine, test they resemble those Russia Western Europe. After reviewing arguments brought 'Clash Civilizations', Modernization, Social Identity, Nation Building...
Abstract Even in the most egalitarian societies, hierarchies of power and status shape social life. However, received are not synonymous—individuals positions may or be accorded respect corresponding to their role. Using a cooperatively collected dataset from 18,096 participants across 70 cultures, we investigate, through survey‐based correlational design, when perceived position‐based (operationalized as influence control) various powerholders is associated with elevated instrumental...
Contemporary theories of emotion emphasize the dual role emotions as both personal experiences and communicative signals during social interactions. However, impact macro-level societal structures on emotional expression remains underexplored. This study investigates experience-expression discrepancy for self-reported across nations, focusing how development influences this discrepancy, which captures expressivity. Using meta-analysis multilevel modelling with a multinational sample N_sample...
Background Previous studies have shown that national cultural traits, such as collectivism–individualism and tightness–looseness, are associated with COVID-19 infection mortality rates. However, although East Asian countries outperformed other in containing infections lowering the first pandemic waves, no to date examined flexibility-monumentalism, a trait uniquely distinguishes Asia from rest of world. Moreover, none previous explored mechanisms underpinning association between culture...
With the COVID-19 pandemic, behavioural scientists aimed to illuminate reasons why people comply with (or not) large-scale cooperative activities. Here we investigated motives that underlie support for preventive behaviours in a sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized associations empathic prosocial concern and fear disease towards would be moderated by trust government. Results suggest association between was strongest when government weak (both at individual-...
Focusing on Europe, this article aims to disentangle the patterns of cultural clustering and throw more light concepts such as ‘civilizations’ ‘cultural zones.’ Cross-cultural analyses unanimously find that various historical background socioeconomic indicators are strongly correlated societal values, however, a systematic investigation what makes cultures similar different hasn’t been conducted. The author first outlines factors mechanisms may explain value similarities, then tests their...
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on societies, with possible consequences for their fundamental values. Inglehart’s revised modernization theory links societal values to the underlying subjective sense of existential security in given society (scarcity hypothesis), while also claiming that influences diminish once individuals reach adulthood (socialization hypothesis). An acute crisis such as offers rare opportunity test these assumptions. We analyze data from...
Abstract The current study investigated the motives that underlie support for COVID-19 preventive behaviorsin a large, cross-cultural sample of 12,758 individuals from 34 countries. We hypothesized associations empathic prosocial concern and fear disease, with towards behaviors would be moderated by individual-level country-level trust in government. Results suggest association between disease was strongest when government weak (both at individual country-level). Conversely, high, but this...
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) is a widely used measure that captures somatic symptoms of coronavirus-related anxiety.In large-scale collaboration spanning 60 countries with 21,513 respondents, we examined CAS's measurement invariance and the evidence convergent validity CAS scores in relation to fear satisfaction life (SWLS-3) scales.We utilized both conventional exact tests alignment procedures, revealing single-factor model fit data well almost all countries.Partial scalar was supported...
Whether the EU is a community of shared values increasingly contested in public debates and academic discourses alike. We analyse level change acceptance EU’s officially promoted seven domains: personal freedom, individual autonomy, social solidarity, ethnic tolerance, civic honesty, gender equality liberal democracy. find that EU-member populations support EU- strongly over time, especially freedoms equality. Regarding for these values, are notably distinct from non-EU populations....