TY - JOUR
T1 - Where You Are Is Who You Are? The Geographical Account of Psychological Phenomena
AU - Chen, Hao
AU - Lai, Kaisheng
AU - He, Lingnan
AU - Yu, Rongjun
N1 - Funding Information:
This manuscript was partially supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grants 71731004 and 71532005 and the Major Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China Grant 18ZDA165.
Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright © 2020 Chen, Lai, He and Yu.
PY - 2020/3/24
Y1 - 2020/3/24
N2 - Geographical psychology aims to study the spatial distribution of psychological phenomenon at different levels of geographical analysis and their relations to macro-level important societal outcomes. The geographical perspective provides a new way of understanding interactions between humankind psychological processes and distal macro-environments. Studies have identified the spatial organizations of a wide range of psychological constructs, including (but not limited among) personality, individualism/collectivism, cultural tightness-looseness, and well-being; these variations have been plotted over a range of geographical units (e.g., neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries) and have been linked to a broad array of political, economic, social, public health, and other social consequences. Future research should employ multi-level analysis, taking advantage of more deliberated causality test methods and big data techniques, to further examine the emerging and evolving mechanisms of geographical differences in psychological phenomena.
AB - Geographical psychology aims to study the spatial distribution of psychological phenomenon at different levels of geographical analysis and their relations to macro-level important societal outcomes. The geographical perspective provides a new way of understanding interactions between humankind psychological processes and distal macro-environments. Studies have identified the spatial organizations of a wide range of psychological constructs, including (but not limited among) personality, individualism/collectivism, cultural tightness-looseness, and well-being; these variations have been plotted over a range of geographical units (e.g., neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries) and have been linked to a broad array of political, economic, social, public health, and other social consequences. Future research should employ multi-level analysis, taking advantage of more deliberated causality test methods and big data techniques, to further examine the emerging and evolving mechanisms of geographical differences in psychological phenomena.
KW - big data
KW - cultural values
KW - geographical psychology
KW - personality
KW - well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85083094032&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00536
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00536
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85083094032
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 11
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 536
ER -