Are all smart nations happier? Country aggregate IQ predicts happiness, but the relationship is moderated by individualism–collectivism

Stolarski, Maciej; Jasielska, Dorota; Zajenkowski, Marcin

doi:10.1016/j.intell.2015.04.003

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“…This might explain why, compared to insecure attachments, secure attachments are associated with higher measured intelligence (van IJzendoorn, Dijkstra, & Bus, 1995) and in general better psychological and social adjustment (Cassidy & Shaver, 2016). However, like intelligence (Stolarski, Jasielska, & Zajenkowski, 2015), the impact of attachment patterns on well-being differ depending on cultural context (Friedman et al, 2010).…”

Section: Culture and Attachment: A Rapprochementmentioning

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Culture and Child Attachment Patterns: a Behavioral Systems Synthesis

2019

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We propose that the two dominant culture institutions (individualist and collectivist) are neither learned nor cognitively represented by the people who practice them. Instead, they exist as group-level payoff structures that reflect differential distributions of child attachment patterns within a society. Individualist societies reflect an overrepresentation of insecure-avoidant attachments and collectivist societies reflect an overrepresentation of insecure-anxious attachments. Moreover, attachment patterns are embodied rather than representational-schedule-induced rather than incrementally shaped or verbally learned. If attachment patterns are schedule-induced, the prospects are poorer for effecting cultural change through economic incentives or informational campaigns (top-down). Rather, cultural practices will be responsive to changes in family practices-to the extent they affect attachment patterns (bottom-up). For example, if breastfeeding rates decline or the workforce participation of women increases, a society will become more individualist and less collectivist. That is because those practices increase avoidant as compared to anxious attachments. Moreover, because insecurely attached children are behaviorally less flexible than are securely attached children, the former have a greater impact on cultural practices than do the latter.

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Section: Culture and Attachment: A Rapprochementmentioning

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Culture and Child Attachment Patterns: a Behavioral Systems Synthesis

2019

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“…Several other outcome variables have been linked to intelligence such as income inequality (Kanazawa 2009; Meisenberg 2012), education and literacy (Barber 2005), corruption (Meisenberg 2004(Meisenberg , 2012Potrafke 2012), savings (Jones and Podemska-Mikluch 2010), investment (Ram 2007), employment (Vinogradov and Kolvereid 2010), poverty (Kodila-Tedika and Bolito-Losembe 2014), financial development (Kodila-Tedika and Asonglu 2015), happiness (Stolarski et al 2015), religiosity (Reeve 2009), liberalism (Kanazawa 2009) and entrepreneurship (Hafer and Jones 2015).…”

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Λαπατίνας

Λίτινα

2018

Empir Econ

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“…Since there is evidence that people with personality traits associated with neuroticism are less likely to be happy (Costa & McCrae, 1980;Diener & Seligman, 2002;Hayes & Joseph, 2003), it is possible that a third variable drives these results. Additionally, the relationship between subjective well-being and intelligence could also be moderated by cultural values such as individualism-collectivism (Stolarski, Jasielska, & Zajenkowski, 2015). Again, these concerns are primarily for our findings that examine the effect of the absolutely level of verbal IQ on happiness.…”

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Relative verbal intelligence and happiness

Nikolaev

McGee

2016

Intelligence

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Even though higher intelligence (IQ) is often associated with many positive outcomes in life, it has become a stylized fact in the happiness literature that smarter people are not happier than their less intelligent counterparts. In this paper, we examine how relative verbal intelligence correlates with happiness and present two main findings. First, our estimations from the General Social Survey for a large representative sample of Americans suggest a small, but positive and significant correlation between verbal intelligence and happiness. Second, we find that verbal intelligence has a strong positional effect on happiness, i.e., people who have greater verbal proficiency relative to their peers in their reference group are more likely to report higher levels of happiness. The positional effect of happiness holds even when we control for a large set of socio-economic characteristics as well as relative income.

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Are all smart nations happier? Country aggregate IQ predicts happiness, but the relationship is moderated by individualism–collectivism

Cited by 17 publications

References 40 publications

Culture and Child Attachment Patterns: a Behavioral Systems Synthesis

Culture and Child Attachment Patterns: a Behavioral Systems Synthesis

Intelligence and economic sophistication

Relative verbal intelligence and happiness

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