TY - JOUR
T1 - The Ecology-Culture Dataset
T2 - A new resource for investigating cultural variation
AU - Wormley, Alexandra S.
AU - Kwon, Jung Yul
AU - Barlev, Michael
AU - Varnum, Michael E.W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (ASW). Thank you to our research assistants-- GA, DG, EC, JG, and SS-- for their assistance with data collection.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Scholars interested in cultural diversity have long suggested that similarities and differences across human populations might be understood, at least in part, as stemming from differences in the social and physical ecologies individuals inhabit. Here, we describe the EcoCultural Dataset (ECD), the most comprehensive compilation to date of country-level ecological and cultural variables around the globe. ECD covers 220 countries, 9 ecological variables operationalized by 11 statistical metrics (including measures of variability and predictability), and 72 cultural variables (including values, personality traits, fundamental social motives, subjective well-being, tightness-looseness, indices of corruption, social capital, and gender inequality). This rich dataset can be used to identify novel relationships between ecological and cultural variables, to assess the overall relationship between ecology and culture, to explore the consequences of interactions between different ecological variables, and to construct new indices of cultural distance.
AB - Scholars interested in cultural diversity have long suggested that similarities and differences across human populations might be understood, at least in part, as stemming from differences in the social and physical ecologies individuals inhabit. Here, we describe the EcoCultural Dataset (ECD), the most comprehensive compilation to date of country-level ecological and cultural variables around the globe. ECD covers 220 countries, 9 ecological variables operationalized by 11 statistical metrics (including measures of variability and predictability), and 72 cultural variables (including values, personality traits, fundamental social motives, subjective well-being, tightness-looseness, indices of corruption, social capital, and gender inequality). This rich dataset can be used to identify novel relationships between ecological and cultural variables, to assess the overall relationship between ecology and culture, to explore the consequences of interactions between different ecological variables, and to construct new indices of cultural distance.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41597-022-01738-z
DO - 10.1038/s41597-022-01738-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 36220886
AN - SCOPUS:85139633122
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 9
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
IS - 1
M1 - 615
ER -