In my last post, we looked at the importance of culturability, “the relationship between culture and usability in WWW design” [1], and specifically, Power Distance [2], when designing online.

Since the founding of the United States, Americans have long bought into individualism: the idea that the individual outweighs the collective. Individualism’s emphasis on your own rights and feelings ...

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 ...

Individualism is characterized by self-reliance and loose ties between individuals, whereas collectivism is characterized by interdependence between individuals and the subordination of individual ...

Countries and US states more predisposed to collectivist behavior have more people following mask guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Around the world and within the U.S ...

Individualism is good, collectivism is bad. That’s what I first concluded as a teenager after reading Friedrich Hayek’s seminal treatise, “The Road to Serfdom.” Every life experience since then has ...

Many people take for granted the idea that individualism leads to selfishness. But a new study, forthcoming in Psychological Science, concludes the opposite: more individualistic societies feature ...

When Igor de Almeida moved to Japan from Brazil nine years ago, the transition should have been relatively easy. Both Japan and Brazil are collectivist nations, where people tend to value the group’s ...

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 ...