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Dear all,

Our common project is going ahead, under the supervision of Anna Sircova, Fons Van de Vijver and Philip G. Zimbardo.

Cross-cultural analyze is realized on samples from 22 countries at the last count. After the joint publication in the Journal of Cultural-Historical Psychology (#4, 2007), the symposiums organized at the 29^th International Congress of Psychology and at the 11^th European congress of psychology, and our international meetings in Berlin and Oslo, this research project is a core realization of our network.

To organize project management, facilitate concrete realization, and ensure for fair rewards from this project, an open agreement was proposed to all data providers. This agreement regulates data owning, publication schedule and authorship sequences, and propose a management structure according to effective contributions in the research effort since the beginning.

Planned steps of work are more or less fully realized (data gathering, preliminary statistical analysis, literature review, writing), and the first article, dedicated to structural equivalence of ZTPI as measured by ZTPI across countries will be achieved in early 2010.

Two other articles are planned and ruled by the agreement:

• One dedicated to level equivalence and item bias analysis
• One dedicated to relation of TP with broad cultural constructs

The exact content of the publication is susceptible to change according to the observed results from analyzes.

For upcoming publications, your contributions are welcome to achieve the work (data providing, writing, editing, literature search, ideas and procedures for analysis and so on…), every contribution will be fairly rewarded by the means offered from a project performed without any funding.

Agreement for TP cross cultural research

First call 08/28/09 – Reminder 09/25/09

Approved:

1. England (Iliona Boniwell) – 08/29/09
2. Italy (Martina Peri) – 08/31/09
3. Portugal (Victor Ortuno) – 09/02/09
4. Japan (Yumi Shimojima) – 09/08/09
5. Turkey (Altinay Kislali) – 08/29/09
6. France (Nicolas Fieulaine) – 08/29/09
7. Russia (Anna Sircova) – 08/29/09
8. United States (Philip Zimbardo) – 08/29/09
9. Serbia (Jasmina Nedeljkovic) – 09/29/09
10. Greece (Fay Griva)  - 09/29/09
11. Poland (Aneta Przepiorka) – 09/28/09
12. Croatia (Tomislav Bunjevac) – 09/27/09
13. China (Houchao LV) – 09/27/09
14. Spain (Juan Francisco Diaz-Morales) – 10/19/09
15. Lithuania (Antanas Kairys) – 10/20/09
16. Sweden (Grazia Carelli) - 10/23/09
17. Brazil, Germany, and New Zealand (Taciano L. Milfont) – 09/27/09
18. Greece (Daphne Pediaditakis) – 10/10/09
19. Mexico (Victor Corral-Verdugo)
20. China (Hui Lin)
21. Czech Republic (Martina Klicperova-Baker)
22. Brazil (Umbelina do Rago Leite)
23. Slimane Djarallah (Algeria)