Responsibilism · 100 cultures
Where does Mongolia fit?
Compare duties to family and close friends across 100 cultures.
Culture scores from Talhelm et al. (2026), Nature Human Behaviour.
Responsibilism score
Same scale for every sampleMongolia’s sample scored 22.4 points higher than the United States sample.
Scores, not percentages. Higher scores reflect stronger duties in close relationships alongside weaker ties to strangers.
More: compare the survey answers
The overall score combines several kinds of relationships. Here you can compare what participants agreed with, one statement at a time.
Read the full question
Энэ хуудасны орчуулга; судалгаанд ашигласан монгол асуулгын баталгаажсан хуулбар биш.
Англи эхийг унших
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We should keep our aging parents with us at home.
Share who agreed
“Slightly agree,” “agree” or “strongly agree.”
83 of 125 respondents
192 of 511 respondents
Agreement was 28.8 percentage points higher in Mongolia’s sample.
These are actual response percentages, separate from the index above.
Calculated from the study’s public, cleaned participant data. These raw answers are not adjusted for differences in how people use response scales. They describe these samples, not national populations, and a gap is not a test of statistical significance.
How the question comparisons are calculated
Actual agreement, without reversing answers
“Agreed” counts responses 5, 6 and 7 on the original seven-point response scale. The denominator is the number of valid answers to that statement. Neutral responses and all three disagreement options remain in the denominator. Percentages and percentage-point gaps are rounded to one decimal after calculation.
Some statements run in the opposite direction to responsibilism. Here, higher agreement always means agreement with the words displayed. It does not always mean higher responsibilism. The overall index also combines items and adjusts for response style, so a single answer need not follow the index.
Coverage and wording
The source is the authors’ cleaned 12,247-person dataset, grouped by its culture code. Only response counts are embedded in this page. No participant records are included. All displayed statements have complete answers in that file.
This view includes 15 response statements from 13 of the final 14 items. The two paired items are shown as separate statements. The item about friends’ hurtful advice is omitted: the dataset’s English label describes dating, while the published questionnaire describes writing a novel. We cannot reliably identify the scenario used for each sample.
Short scenario descriptions are paraphrases. “Read the full question” shows the dataset’s English reference wording, with context restored for paired statements. Local translations and adaptations may differ.
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About the numbers & sources
What does 0–100 mean?
The authors rescaled the culture scores so the lowest observed sample, Denmark, is 0 and the highest, Kuwait, is 100. Zero does not mean “no responsibility,” and 100 is not a perfect score. Future samples could fall outside this range.
Comparison scores are shown to one decimal; the full table retains the two published decimals. Point differences are calculated before rounding. These are descriptive comparisons, not causal claims or tests of significance.
Why “cultures”?
The study includes countries as well as places such as Hong Kong and Greenland. This page keeps all 100 samples from the published table, with a few abbreviated names expanded for readability.
The study
Talhelm and colleagues surveyed 12,247 people across 100 cultures using a 14-item questionnaire translated into 45 languages. The paper was published in Nature Human Behaviour on 15 September 2026.
Scores come from Supplementary Table S22; Mongolia’s sample size comes from Table S24. I collected the Mongolian data as part of the international research team.