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Countries vary greatly in the individualism they exhibit. Individualist societies emphasize autonomy, assertiveness, freedom and independence. Societies with a more collectivist bent, in which the ...

Even when it leads to gross inequality and global financial crises, the conviction that unregulated capitalism is the best possible economic system remains deeply embedded in Canada. “As the waterhole ...

IN the last 100 years, the world has seen a unique struggle between the two ideologies of capitalism and communism. Only a generation ago hardly anyone could think that this struggle would vanish ...

Good news fellow libertarians: We are winning! Individualism is rising across the world, according to a forthcoming study in Psychological Science by a team of Canadian and American psychologists who ...

An international group of scientists from Italy, the USA, China and Russia have studied the relationship between collectivism, individualism and life satisfaction among young people aged 18-25 in four ...

Have you watched professional baseball players interact with each other during games? Often, cultural differences are illustrated in those interactions.

If we include all human societies through human genus history in our analysis (using anthropological and archeological research showing that we spent at least 90% our human history in small-band, ...

Koreans should not feel guilty for Cho Seung-hui’s actions simply because they share his nationality or race. To feel guilty for his actions would be to accept the vicious doctrine of collectivism.

Life satisfaction is one component of subjective well-being. It is an individual assessment of the correlation of living conditions with standards, a sense of correspondence between desires and needs ...