How women differently felt guilt from men in Korea: Focusing on the influence of demographic factors and leisure motivation.

Although leisure provides numerous advantages, people sometimes feel guilty while engaging in leisure. The study objective was to explore the gender differences in the effects of socio-demographic factors and motivational factors on leisure guilt in Korea. Results showed that socio-demographic factors and leisure motivations influenced leisure guilt and the influence of these factors was different by gender.

Self-Construal Differences in Chile and South Korea: A Brief Report.

Latin American and East Asian cultures are generally considered to be collectivistic cultures. However, there are very few cross-cultural studies contrasting these two cultures against each other, as most studies in this field compare them to Western culture. Self-construal is one of the most used constructs to explain cultural differences, elucidating whether individuals of a cultural group see themselves as independent of their environment and others, focusing on personal motivations, or interdependent of others and their context, recognizing their role within it.

Catching up with wonderful women: The women-are-wonderful effect is smaller in more gender egalitarian societies.

Inequalities between men and women are common and well-documented. Objective indexes show that men are better positioned than women in societal hierarchies-there is no single country in the world without a gender gap. In contrast, researchers have found that the women-are-wonderful effect-that women are evaluated more positively than men overall-is also common.

Be Careful Where You Smile: Culture Shapes Judgments of Intelligence and Honesty of Smiling Individuals.

Smiling individuals are usually perceived more favorably than non-smiling ones-they are judged as happier, more attractive, competent, and friendly. These seemingly clear and obvious consequences of smiling are assumed to be culturally universal, however most of the psychological research is carried out in WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) and the influence of culture on social perception of nonverbal behavior is still understudied. Here we show that a smiling individual may be judged as less intelligent than the same non-smiling individual in cultures low on the GLOBE's uncertainty avoidance dimension.

Is reading sexual intention truly functional? The impact of perceiving a partner's sexual intention on courtship initiation behaviors.

The present research examined the presumed but not tested behavioral functions of sexual intent perception. Sex differences in the perception of a partner's sexual intention have been explained by its functions, from an evolutionary perspective, in males' and females' divergent mating goals. Our research directly explored the functional explanation in terms of behavioral impact by testing whether sex differences in sexual intent perception could lead to successful courtship behaviors.