“…It employs either individuals or countries as units of analysis, carries out factor analyses to establish the main dimensions along which these units differ, establishes factorial invariance, and compares the overall standing of different cultural units on these dimensions. Such an approach has been used in studies of personality (Poortinga, Van de Vijver, & Van Hemert, 2002), social attitudes (Stankov & Lee, under review), values (Bilsky, Janik, & Schwartz, 2011), social axioms (Bou-Malham & Saucier, 2014), and social norms (Hofstede, 2001; House, Hanges, Javidan, Dorfman, & Gupta, 2004; Stankov, 2015). The aims of dimensional analysis are to (a) find out on which psychological dimensions (factors) there exist pronounced country-level differences (see Saucier et al., 2014; Stankov, 2011; Stankov & Lee, 2009) and (b) establish the ranking of particular cultural units (e.g., countries or world regions) on these dimensions (see Stankov, 2007; Stankov, Lee, & van de Vijver, 2014; Stankov & Saucier, 2015).…”