Charlemagne’s Legacy: A Consensus Analysis of Affective Meanings in French and German Culture
Diego Dametto|Luc Vieira|Tobias Schröder|Christophe Blaison
We investigate between- and within-country consensus about affective meanings of social identities along the evaluation, potency, activity dimensions from affect control theory research tradition. Ratings for 387 (194 male 193 female) were collected two samples representative French (N = 700) German populations age, gender, region. Guided by preregistered hypotheses based on previous cross-cultural research, our analysis points to considerable cultural between Germans who seem share a common “Carolingian” culture; yet some culture-specific patterns concerning evaluation dimension evaluation-potency interactions found be statistically significant. interpret these results in terms known features such as power distance conceptions power.
Social Psychology Quarterly