05.01.2015 |
magazine issue | 01/2015
written by Marieke van Egmond
On kissing in elevators and flirting in the office: A cross-cultural perspective on normative behavior.
keywords:
cross-cultural differences / social norms / cultural tightness
On kissing in elevators and flirting in the office: A cross-cultural perspective on normative behavior.
Imagine you are walking around the city center. It is a warm summer evening and the street is deserted, no children or cars are around. The pedestrian light to cross the street is red. What do you do? Keep waiting for the light to turn green or just cross? And why? Because it is your own free choice? If you decided to ignore the red light and cross the street, you just broke what is called a... / more