The International Situations Project

Our current research focuses on situational assessment across cultures (along with collaborators in Japan, China, Italy and many other countries). For the first paper from the international project, reporting some preliminary data from the US and Japan, click here. For a more comprehensive paper, reporting comparisons of situational experience across 20 countries, click here. For a second paper, focusing on comparisons of behavioral reports across 21 countries, click here. A third paper compares personality (measured using the California Adult-Q-sort) across 13 countries; click here. For the funded grant proposal for the "International Situations Project" (NSF BCS-1528131) that is working to expand this project to more countries and wider samples around the world, click here. In close collaboration with an amazing international team of researchers, we are gathering data in 65 countries (and 42 languages). For a recent publication, which uses these new data, from 62 countries, to replicate and extend findings from our initial, 20-country project, click here. For a comparison of optimism around the world, click here. For a comparison of measures of happiness around the world, click here.

For translations of measures, click here

For previous datasets, click here

For recent publications, click here