
Latitude Adjustment: Distance from the Equator Shapes Our Thinking
Climate differences are associated with varying happiness, individualism and aggressiveness
Paul A. M. van Lange is a professor of psychology at VU Amsterdam and a distinguished research fellow at the University of Oxford. He is an expert on trust and human cooperation, economic games, and social neuroscience and gives advice and workshops to mayors and other professionals to address major issues of trust and conflict in policy and management. He has published widely on societally relevant topics: from climate change to corruption and from refugee crisis to sex differences in soccer. His Web site is at www.paulvanlange.com
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