Editorial: Inter-cultural cooperation: The role of attitudes, (shared) expectations, and behavioral standards

Frontiers in Psychology. 2022. P. 1–10.

Walkowitz G., Belianin A. V., Dorrough A. R.

The goal of the Research Topic is to offer new perspectives for reflecting and disentangling the determining factors of inter-cultural cooperation. A distinction is made between an intra-cultural and an inter-cultural view to better understand the potential impact of attitudes formed within national cultures on behavior in intercultural situations. The collected papers cover and address different forms of intra- and inter-cultural social interactions, especially pro-social behaviors, in a variety of ways.
Some of these contribute to our knowledge and understanding of important phenomena of the contemporary world, such as attitudes toward migrants, or experiences of refugees. More generally, all papers make scientific contributions by providing
grounded evidence on interconnections between individual values, experiences, preferences, and behavior. No less importantly, these works also yield several null findings, or the absence of expected causalities, thus enhancing our knowledge of the potential limits of existing theories and concepts connecting them.

Keywords: cooperation, cultural psychology, Cross-cultural, measurement invariance, prosocial behavior, refugees, asylum

Publication based on the results of: Experimental Study of Expectations and Preferences in Social Interactions (2022)