title: How is freedom distributed across the earth?
abstract: Although Van de Vliert presented an entertaining story containing several original observations, an implicit assumption that climate affects human society identically through the history is not realistic. If almost everything is explained by cold winters or hot summers, then nothing is explained. Ignoring rival explanations does not make the proposed theory more convincing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu 5410, Estonia. juri.allik@ut.ee http://psych.ut.ee/~jyri/ anu.realo@ut.ee http://www.psychology.ut.ee/en www.ut.ee.
authors.forename: Jüri
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Allik
authors.forename: Anu
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Realo
mesh_terms: D002980:Climate; D017753:Ecosystem; D005610:Freedom; D006801:Humans; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors