Our ideas about “healthy boundaries” aren’t universal. Explore how cultural values influence the way we set limits, connect, ...

For anyone watching the second series of Big Little Lies starring Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon, amongst others, you will recall a scene in the third episode where an attentive group of children ...

For decades, psychologists have used the concepts of individualism and collectivism to understand cross-cultural differences, particularly between East and West. Western societies exhibit independence ...

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 ...

As I look back through my 76-year history and form sociological and societal opinions, I have come to feel (particularly in light of recent societal trends) that we are becoming more collectively ...

Models of culture are operationalized as individualism and collectivism and have not given sufficient attention to other organizing axes—especially how a society handles power, dependence, and ...

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