Robert V Levine
Biographic Data
| ID | 80143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert V Levine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert V |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine |
| SIGNATURE | LEVINE R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fresno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Helping Strangers Is Lower in Embedded Cultures
The embeddedness cultural value orientation regards the extended in-group, not the individual, as the key social unit. Embedded cultures focus on the welfare of the in-group, limiting concern for outsiders' well-being. Therefore, the authors hypothesized that people in high-embeddedness cultures are less helpful to strangers in need. They related countries' embeddedness scores to rates of helping strangers in three field experiments across 21 cou…
The kindness of strangers revisited
National Wealth and Thermal Climate as Predictors of Motives for Volunteer Work
A voluntary worker may have both self-serving and altruistic motivations for helping, which may be positively or negatively linked together. Multilevel analyses of World Values Survey data, representatively sampled from 13, 584 inhabitants of 33 countries, uncover a pattern of cross-cultural differences in balancing these self-and other-directed helping motivations. A voluntary worker’s self-serving and altruistic motivations tend to be positivel…
Measuring Helping Behavior Across Cultures
This chapter focuses on some of the special challenges and difficulties in conducting cross-cultural research. In particular, it describes some of the problems my colleagues and I have faced in our own research: a series of studies in which helpfulness toward strangers was assessed in 36 cities across the United States and 23 large cities around the world. We conducted independent field experiments in each city to measure helping in various situa…
Cross-Cultural Differences in Helping Strangers
Independent field experiments in 23 large cities around the world measured three types of spontaneous, nonemergency helping: alerting a pedestrian who dropped a pen, offering help to a pedestrian with a hurt leg trying to reach a pile of dropped magazines, and assisting a blind person cross the street. The results indicated that a city's helping rate was relatively stable across the three measures, suggesting that helping of strangers is a cross-…
The Pace of Life in 31 Countries
This study compared the pace of life in large cities from 31 countries around the world. Three indicators of pace of life were observed: average walking speed in downtown locations, the speed with which postal clerks completed a simple request (work speed), and the accuracy of public clocks. Overall, pace of life was fastest in Japan and the countries of Western Europe and was slowest in economically undeveloped countries. The pace was significan…
Helping in 36 U.S. cities
A series of experiments examined the relationship of urbanism to helping. Six types of hclping behaviors were studied in a cross -sample of 36 small. medium. and large cities across the United States. The relationship of helping to a series of statistics reflecting the demographic. social. environ mental. and economic characteristics of these communities was then examined. The strongest and most consistent predictor of overall helping was populat…
Pace of Life, Punctuality, and Coronary Heart Disease in Six Countries
Cross-cultural differences in attitudes and behaviors concerning time, punctuality, and pace of life, and the relationship of these measures to coronary heart disease, were investigated in a series of studies in Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Italy, England, and the United States. Study 1 found that public clocks were most accurate in the most economically developed countries (Japan and the United States) and least accurate in the least developed coun…
Attitudes toward adoption and child-bearing by American and Brazilian students
Perceptions of time and punctuality in the United States and Brazil
Attraction as a Function of Boasting, Self-Apology, and Credibility of an Actor
76 male and 91 female undergraduates rated the attractiveness and personality characteristics of an actor in a taped conversation. In one condition the actor boasted throughout and then apologized for boasting at the end of the conversation. In a second condition the actor boasted but did not apologize for his behavior. In the third condition the actor did not boast. The credibility (high or low) of boasting was varied in each condition. Results …
The Pace of Life in 31 Countries
This study compared the pace of life in large cities from 31 countries around the world. Three indicators of pace of life were observed: average walking speed in downtown locations, the speed with which postal clerks completed a simple request (work speed), and the accuracy of public clocks. Overall, pace of life was fastest in Japan and the countries of Western Europe and was slowest in economically undeveloped countries. The pace was significan…
Cross-Cultural Differences in Helping Strangers
Independent field experiments in 23 large cities around the world measured three types of spontaneous, nonemergency helping: alerting a pedestrian who dropped a pen, offering help to a pedestrian with a hurt leg trying to reach a pile of dropped magazines, and assisting a blind person cross the street. The results indicated that a city's helping rate was relatively stable across the three measures, suggesting that helping of strangers is a cross-…
Helping in 36 U.S. cities
A series of experiments examined the relationship of urbanism to helping. Six types of hclping behaviors were studied in a cross -sample of 36 small. medium. and large cities across the United States. The relationship of helping to a series of statistics reflecting the demographic. social. environ mental. and economic characteristics of these communities was then examined. The strongest and most consistent predictor of overall helping was populat…
National Wealth and Thermal Climate as Predictors of Motives for Volunteer Work
A voluntary worker may have both self-serving and altruistic motivations for helping, which may be positively or negatively linked together. Multilevel analyses of World Values Survey data, representatively sampled from 13, 584 inhabitants of 33 countries, uncover a pattern of cross-cultural differences in balancing these self-and other-directed helping motivations. A voluntary worker’s self-serving and altruistic motivations tend to be positivel…
Perceptions of time and punctuality in the United States and Brazil
Pace of Life, Punctuality, and Coronary Heart Disease in Six Countries
Cross-cultural differences in attitudes and behaviors concerning time, punctuality, and pace of life, and the relationship of these measures to coronary heart disease, were investigated in a series of studies in Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Italy, England, and the United States. Study 1 found that public clocks were most accurate in the most economically developed countries (Japan and the United States) and least accurate in the least developed coun…
Helping Strangers Is Lower in Embedded Cultures
The embeddedness cultural value orientation regards the extended in-group, not the individual, as the key social unit. Embedded cultures focus on the welfare of the in-group, limiting concern for outsiders' well-being. Therefore, the authors hypothesized that people in high-embeddedness cultures are less helpful to strangers in need. They related countries' embeddedness scores to rates of helping strangers in three field experiments across 21 cou…
The kindness of strangers revisited
Attraction as a Function of Boasting, Self-Apology, and Credibility of an Actor
76 male and 91 female undergraduates rated the attractiveness and personality characteristics of an actor in a taped conversation. In one condition the actor boasted throughout and then apologized for boasting at the end of the conversation. In a second condition the actor boasted but did not apologize for his behavior. In the third condition the actor did not boast. The credibility (high or low) of boasting was varied in each condition. Results …
Perceptions of time and punctuality in the United States and Brazil
Attitudes toward adoption and child-bearing by American and Brazilian students
Pace of Life, Punctuality, and Coronary Heart Disease in Six Countries
Cross-cultural differences in attitudes and behaviors concerning time, punctuality, and pace of life, and the relationship of these measures to coronary heart disease, were investigated in a series of studies in Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Italy, England, and the United States. Study 1 found that public clocks were most accurate in the most economically developed countries (Japan and the United States) and least accurate in the least developed coun…
Helping in 36 U.S. cities
A series of experiments examined the relationship of urbanism to helping. Six types of hclping behaviors were studied in a cross -sample of 36 small. medium. and large cities across the United States. The relationship of helping to a series of statistics reflecting the demographic. social. environ mental. and economic characteristics of these communities was then examined. The strongest and most consistent predictor of overall helping was populat…
The Pace of Life in 31 Countries
This study compared the pace of life in large cities from 31 countries around the world. Three indicators of pace of life were observed: average walking speed in downtown locations, the speed with which postal clerks completed a simple request (work speed), and the accuracy of public clocks. Overall, pace of life was fastest in Japan and the countries of Western Europe and was slowest in economically undeveloped countries. The pace was significan…
Cross-Cultural Differences in Helping Strangers
Independent field experiments in 23 large cities around the world measured three types of spontaneous, nonemergency helping: alerting a pedestrian who dropped a pen, offering help to a pedestrian with a hurt leg trying to reach a pile of dropped magazines, and assisting a blind person cross the street. The results indicated that a city's helping rate was relatively stable across the three measures, suggesting that helping of strangers is a cross-…
Measuring Helping Behavior Across Cultures
This chapter focuses on some of the special challenges and difficulties in conducting cross-cultural research. In particular, it describes some of the problems my colleagues and I have faced in our own research: a series of studies in which helpfulness toward strangers was assessed in 36 cities across the United States and 23 large cities around the world. We conducted independent field experiments in each city to measure helping in various situa…
National Wealth and Thermal Climate as Predictors of Motives for Volunteer Work
A voluntary worker may have both self-serving and altruistic motivations for helping, which may be positively or negatively linked together. Multilevel analyses of World Values Survey data, representatively sampled from 13, 584 inhabitants of 33 countries, uncover a pattern of cross-cultural differences in balancing these self-and other-directed helping motivations. A voluntary worker’s self-serving and altruistic motivations tend to be positivel…
The kindness of strangers revisited
Helping Strangers Is Lower in Embedded Cultures
The embeddedness cultural value orientation regards the extended in-group, not the individual, as the key social unit. Embedded cultures focus on the welfare of the in-group, limiting concern for outsiders' well-being. Therefore, the authors hypothesized that people in high-embeddedness cultures are less helpful to strangers in need. They related countries' embeddedness scores to rates of helping strangers in three field experiments across 21 cou…
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