Imagine you're working on a group project. One person immediately divvies up the work so each person has specific tasks to do, and another creates a plan that allows the entire group to tackle each ...

Judging from casual conversations and media reports on loneliness, it appears that many assume loneliness is primarily a problem in individualistic cultures. By contrast, people in collectivistic ...

Americans gravitated toward individualism as people spread out in a new land that seemed wide-open with many opportunities. Many had to make individual decisions to come to America in the first place.

The existence of millions of American reactionaries, who despise public health measures that save lives like their own, seems to attest to our nation’s storied obsession with individualism. As a ...

Culture is a belief about ethics, behaviors and values that are held by a majority of people within a society. The culture of which we are a part impacts our identity and even our beliefs about the ...

What does culture have to do with creativity? The answer could be “a lot.” For decades psychologists trying to understand the roots of creative imaginations have looked at the way two kinds of ...

This is an interesting joint guest column by Mariajose Montoya Talavera, a rising junior education major at Piedmont University from Honduras, and her professor Perry Rettig, a former vice president ...

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What does a classroom look like that responds to both individualist and collectivist approaches? Critical thinking is a core learning outcome for all Piedmont University graduates. So, students ...