Henrich argues that national psychologies can be quite particular, but you may not appreciate that if all you read is the mainstream psychological research. Always check that your browser shows a closed lock icon and . And all those things need to be realigned when you really have a true culture change. 534. China, Japan, and Turkey are also tight. Shes not very disciplined. How much time have you spent thinking about what makes America, America? If you no longer even pretend to be one people and to be fair to all the citizens of your country, then youre not going down a road that leads to a great future. A tight country like Germany tends to set strict limits on noise, with mandated quiet hours. New York City, meanwhile, has been called not just the city that never sleeps, but the city that never shuts up. Tight countries tend to have very little jaywalking, or littering or, God forbid, dog poop on the sidewalks. Dubner speaks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, intellectuals and entrepreneurs, and various other underachievers. HENRICH: Im a researcher who tries to apply evolutionary theory to understand human behavior and human psychology and particularly culture. And we see that the combination of high individualism, high masculinity, and high short-termism can produce some chaos, at the very least. But its also a tremendous outlier. Really? And it should stay there. I do think that today they are living through difficult times, but so are we. Whereas in other contexts, like in the Middle East, when you think about honor, you think about your family, you think about your purity, your dutifulness, and so forth much less so about accomplishments. HOFSTEDE: For the U.S.A., the world is like a market. "The typical parenting expert, like experts in other fields, is prone to sound exceedingly sure of himself. He came to consider a company "honest" if its payment rate was above 90 percent. One thing that I think that Americans are more extreme than other Western countries and certainly elsewhere in the world is attributing individual success to the internal traits of the actor. But when you use data to measure the specific dimensions of a given culture, and compare them to other countries, you see some stark differences. So the U.S. produces the sort of Wal-Mart equivalent of religions: big churches giving the people what they want, high pageantry. And in a restrained society, theres going to be suicide. And you speak fast because I dont want to waste a lot of time talking. There were a number of low offers of 15 percent, which didnt get rejected. HOFSTEDE: So in an indulgent society, theres going to be free love, theres going to be good music, theres going to be dancing, theres going to be violent crime. It means you really want to know and youre not satisfied until you know. Even Gert Jan Hofstede suggests that his model shouldnt be seen as overly deterministic. And there are other inconsistencies, especially in a country as large and diverse as the U.S. For instance, where you live. And some advice from our new Dutch friend. And Im particularly interested in how its shaped our psychology. Individualism encompasses a value system, a theory of human nature, and a belief in certain political, economic, social, and religious arrangements. But somehow, that diversity and that early celebration of permissiveness has overridden that. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is . Like, the military should be tighter than tech. But its important to acknowledge that no culture is a monolith. And I was interested in this, and I thought maybe it would tell us something about an innate human psychology for reciprocity or something like that. Okay, you get the gist, right? And it produces this illusion. Our staff also includesAlison Craiglow,Greg Rippin,Joel Meyer,Tricia Bobeda, Mary Diduch, Zack Lapinski, Emma Tyrrell, Lyric Bowditch, Jasmin Klinger,andJacob Clemente. HENRICH: And this can include motivations, heuristics, biases, beliefs. These were surveys of I.B.M.s own employees around the world. We see them as individuals with whom we are in competition. So the general rules of a loose or tight culture may not be consistently applied to all populations. Follow. You might think that someone who studies cross-cultural psychology also grew up abroad, or at least in some big city with a melting-pot vibe. When most readers think economics, they think advanced math, complicated models, and subjects like unemployment, the stock market, and the trade deficit. Needless to say, it's had a lot of success. HENRICH: We have a kind of religiosity equivalent to somewhere like Kuwait. And we found that people from minority or even women backgrounds were seen as violating something more severely and were subject to higher punishment without even people realizing this. Good on you, I say. And: In present-day Scandinavia levels of individualism would thus have been significantly higher had emigration not occurred.. Thats what we call tight-loose ambidexterity. But if you look 100 years ago and you look at the cultural map of the world, you can read writers from different countries, you will see that there is astonishing continuity. So you could over-eat and over-indulge and over-drink. At school in the Netherlands, Ive seen a mother ask her two-year-old, Shall I change your nappy? And then the child gets to decide whether its nappy gets changed. According to Chapter 5 of Freakonomics, there is a black-white test score gap and that gap is larger when you compare black and white students from the same school. People tend to be super-creative and theres a lot of negotiation of rules. Freakonomics is a book about 'freaky' research and insight. Culturally maybe more than anything! GELFAND: Well, it requires a lot of negotiation. But, lets look at the pandemic from a different angle: which country produced the most effective Covid-19 vaccines? The first one measures the level of individualism in a given culture, versus collectivism. Next on the list: what Hofstedes late father, the originator of this culture model, called power distance. Thats the extent to which the less powerful members of organizations or institutions be it society at large or just a family accept and expect that power is distributed unequally.. But first, Hofstede had to make sure that the differences he was seeing in the data werent specific to I.B.M. So you see these eye movements that are very different. I came back to Colgate. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. And I shifted from pre-med into what turned into a career of cross-cultural psychology. GELFAND: Classic things like the Mller-Lyer Illusion, which is these two lines where one looks longer than the other. The second player is given a choice between accepting or rejecting. Scholars in this realm have a general agreement on what culture is and what its not. HENRICH: I was doing research in the Peruvian Amazon. Download. He contrasts places like Egypt, that had strict rules for authority and gender and purity, with the Persians who, using my terminology, he would have said that they were quite loose. They tend to veer tighter on our measures than places on the coast. And other cultures are more loose. Steven D. Levitt, the self-described "Rogue Economist" of the title, uses this tool to analyze a random assortment of . HENRICH: This probably wouldnt be in a psych textbook, but something like the Ultimatum game. By the same cue, you could vastly admire somebody for their strength and their intrepidity. Youre going to be shut down. Whereas people from less individualistic societies tend to be better at making relative-size judgments. But Im Dutch, of course. GELFAND: Its like that story of two fish where theyre swimming along. And life is an adventure. Factor analysis being a way to distill a large number of variables into an index, essentially a ranking. You look at parents and how they treat their kids art. You can followFreakonomics RadioonApple Podcasts,Spotify,Stitcher, orwherever you get your podcasts. Anyway, in this episode of No Stupid Questions, we'll be talking about how our surroundings can make us smarter and maybe happier too. You can see this on many dimensions: how we work and travel; how we mate and marry; how we care for our children and our elderly; how we police; how we conceive the relationship between the individual and the state; even how we manage death! Baker was Bushs secretary of state; Aziz was Husseins deputy prime minister. So, organizations you can think about them as the people, the practices, and the leaders. Remember what he said earlier: HENRICH: So how it is that we acquire ideas, beliefs, and values from other people and how this has shaped human genetic evolution. HENRICH: So places like New York and London, people are blazing down the sidewalks. But if youre not an economist, if youre a regular human being, you can see why the second player might reject a $1 offer. Not just regular weird. Ambiguity is good. The spirit of competition of what Michele Gelfand calls vertical individualism seems to permeate every corner of American society. But then she took a semester abroad, to London. GELFAND: And it was fascinating because when people were wearing their normal face, there was no difference. Freakonomics has since grown up into a media company, complete with documentary, radio show, and blog. Those are the things you cant necessarily plan and account for in building models of how you expect people to react in different situations. So yeah, the U.S. has that assignment ahead of it. Nobody can feel insulted. After reading Freakonomics it really opens the reader's eyes to unseen things in everyday life. The converse, which is what Anglo societies are high on, means you dont care about ambiguity. So, culture is about values, beliefs, absorbed ideas and behaviors. Steven D Levitt. And how does a scholar like Neal think about culture per se? HOFSTEDE: Look, guys, we can do it. Michele Gelfand is one of the premier practitioners of cross-cultural psychology. HOFSTEDE: You are on the masculine side not at the very end, but more on the masculine side. The two players dont know each other. Is that the case? HOFSTEDE: This is a very American question, Stephen. Europe has very strong gradients between very individualistic Nordic and Anglo and Germanic countries; Germanic is a little bit more collectivistic. I asked Hofstede what he would advise if a given country did want to change its culture? Im a professor of artificial sociality at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Im a professor of artificial sociality at Wageningen University, in the Netherlands. Whether proud or not, whether happy or not, it has a position. This man has proof of our individualism. But we tried to address that. SFU users should ignore all messages requesting Computing ID and/or password information, no matter how authentic they may appear. But that makes sense. Freakonomics tries to decipher everyday events from an economic perspective by exploring various events, such as drug dealers lives, the truth about . In each chapter, the authors analyze a different social issue from an economic perspective. Also, he uses some very bold examples (crime rates versus abortion, drug dealership, cheating teachers, etc) to make some very simple . Why arent all national cultures converging by now? We visit the world's busiest airport to see . The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. And thats different than in Scandinavia and in New Zealand and Australia, which has much more horizontal individualism. We met him earlier, but just briefly; heres a proper introduction. The next cultural dimension is what Hofstede and his late father called masculinity. That title is a bit misleading. In an individualistic society, depending on how the mood is, you can get very different developments. HOFSTEDE: Thats my idea. On the more feminine end of the spectrum are the Scandinavian countries and some of Western Europe. Macroeconomics, on the other hand, works on a larger scale. Not necessarily better or worse but very different. HENRICH: But if you want to talk about humans, then you have a problem. Bush made clear to Iraqs Saddam Hussein that this wouldnt stand. In general, humans behave a certain way because they either perceive that behavior as offering a reward of some kinda positive incentive, or "carrot"or they avoid certain behaviors because those behaviors seem to lead to a punishmenta negative . HENRICH: We dont like people telling us what to do. By this time, Hofstede the Elder had already gotten a Ph.D. in social science. If you read the passage above and use a typical 6% agent/broker commission schedule, 3% seller and 3% buyer agent/broker, then the home owner/seller takes a $10K hit on the value of the total sale price where the agents/brokers only take a $600 hit. She did want to measure culture, and how it differs from place to place. The fifth cultural dimension is one that I think will resonate with everyone whos ever listened to Freakonomics Radio, since it is at the crux of problem-solving. GELFAND: I was planning to become a cross-cultural trainer to work at the State Department and train people to understand culture. And this dynamic leads to a lot of fighting for the sake of fighting. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; we're also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on "uncertain. The authors argue that humans usually make decisions based on the incentives for their actions. There is no evidence for convergence other than if countries become equally rich, they all go to more individualistic. She argues that both styles have their upsides and their downsides. So, yeah, that is WEIRD. This is the dimension based on data from the World Values Survey. Freakonomics Radio . Freakonomics (2005) aplica el anlisis econmico racional a situaciones cotidianas, desde las citas en lnea hasta la compra de una casa. And then you see how often the subject wants to go along with the other people, as opposed to give the answer they would give if they were by themselves. In indulgent societies, more people play sports, while in restrained societies, sports are more something you watch. This realization is what led us to todays episode of Freakonomics Radio. Can that possibly be trueour culture shapes our genetics? If it were, Afghanistan and Venezuela, even Iran might be U.S.-style democracies by now. And how are we defining culture? We developed these linguistic dictionaries to analyze language reflective of tight and loose, in newspapers and books, tight words like restrain, comply, adhere, enforce, as compared to words like allow and leeway, flexibility, empower. Spoiler alert: This dimension is one of the six in which the U.S. is the biggest outlier in the world. One of the most important figures in economic individualism is the famous Scottish economist, Adam Smith. It may help if youre not originally from here. Gert Jan Hofstede - Freakonomics. According to the individualist, all values are human-centred, the individual is of supreme importance, and all individuals are morally equal. The five loosest countries according to this analysis were Ukraine, Estonia, Hungary, Israel, and the Netherlands. Someone raised in an Eastern culture might focus more on the image as a whole and less on the central object. 1424 Words. And I could see there, a little bit similarly to the U.S., how the various ethnicities are trying to live together. Why the business school? The fifth dimension in the Hofstede universe came in the early 1980s, in collaboration with a Canadian social psychologist named Michael Bond, who was working in Hong Kong. So this is not about, Is world peace important?, HOFSTEDE: For instance, Is it important for you to have a good working relationship with your boss? Or Is it a good idea for people to maybe have more than one boss?. The term individualism itself, and its equivalents in other languages, dateslike socialism and other ismsfrom the 19th century. HOFSTEDE: My name is Gert Jan Hofstede. Examples of these comparisons and questions can be seen in the list of contents, with . Where would you think the U.S. ranks among all the countries measured on this dimension? HOFSTEDE: So collectivistic cultures are those of the Amerindian empires. Its an experiment developed in the early 1980s by, among others, the German economist Werner Gth . Thats what the Ultimatum experiments set out to find. NEAL: So its always evolving, its always developing, but theres some core principles. My uncles like, Hey, I have something to show you. My first day in America, he showed me the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. In any case, heres how Gelfand breaks down the upsides and downsides of tight cultures. GELFAND: Were fiercely interdisciplinary. Joe Henrich again: HENRICH: In some societies, people really attend to scent, and they have a complex set of language terms that have the equivalent of basic color categories for scents. BERT: Because: you get crumbs in the sheets, thats why. Joe Henrichs research into national psychologies led him to an even more fascinating conclusion. And so often, theyll just point at some other country on the map. If youre violating the social order, youre going to be punished.. Theyll say, The Scandinavians have great childcare and family-leave policies. Or theyll say, China has built more high-speed rail in the past few years than the U.S. has even thought about. So, naturally, the next question is: cant the U.S. just borrow these Scandinavian and Chinese and German ideas and slap them on top of the American way of doing things? (That will also need some explaining.) When youre trying to understand the nature of something, an outside view can be extremely helpful. Its the tiny differences in sociality. But then the experimenters confederates come in. Do you know what you are? NANJIANI: I was so excited to be in America I couldnt sleep. Equating individualism with selfishness may be a mistake: Some of the world's wealthiest and most individualistic countries are some of the most altruistic, says 13.7 guest commentator Abigail Marsh. On many Freakonomics Radio episodes, well hear about some idea or policy that works well elsewhere in the world but hasnt taken root in the U.S. NEAL: We think about improvisation in the context, obviously, of creative and musical terms, but its also a way of always having to adapt to the changing political, social, and cultural realities. Oh say, can you see, the home run I just hit. Long Island, New York, is thebirthplace of the American suburb. Here in the U.S., its actually a rule violation to call out people who are violating norms. They were those kinds of Chaos Muppets, because they were risk-seeking. GELFAND: Like during 9/11, during World Wars, we see increases in tightness. DUBNER: Im curious for advice on how we should balance weve become an economic powerhouse, and we recognize that there is a lot of benefit to that. They can freely float about. He did some work in the factory and it shaped him to a great extent because there, he could see that the world of the organization looks so differently from the floor than it does from above. Here are some things that tend to thrive in highly individual societies: human rights, a free press, divorce, and a faster pace of life. But one has arrows going out and one in? What was I.B.M. And the Machiguenga were much closer to the predictions of Homo economicus, where youd make low offers and never reject. HOFSTEDE: My name is Gert Jan Hofstede. As a result, the needs of individuals dictate social behaviors, rather than the needs of larger groups. The Neglected 95%: Why American Psychology Needs to Become Less American, Measuring Inequity Aversion in a Heterogeneous Population Using Experimental Decisions and Subjective Probabilities, Westerners and Easterners See the World Differently, Economic Man in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies, Ultimatum Game with Ethnicity Manipulation: Problems Faced Doing Field Economic Experiments and Their Solutions, Does Culture Matter in Economic Behavior? Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics. We look at how these traits affect our daily lives and why we couldn't change them . We just need to do it. And you could have a perfect storm in that direction. In a multitude of ways, large and small. DUBNER: I like those rules. DUBNER: So weve done a pretty good job of beating up on the U.S. thus far. Its called long-term versus short-term orientation. We should note that Bert and Ernie, despite their differences, are very dear friends! Tightness and compliance would seem to go hand-in-hand. 470. So the picture that emerges from these findings is that Americans are less likely to conform in the name of social harmony; and we also treasure being consistent, expressing our true selves, regardless of the context. employees spread across the globe. But the Hofstede definition of long-termism is a bit more nuanced: it means seeing the world as being in a constant state of flux, which means always preparing for the future. He grew up in England. Culture is about, if you are a part of a society, youre like one drop in the Mississippi River. The third measures masculinity versus femininity in a given culture. Now this is pretty rare to have such different groups of respondents and still find the same thing. DUBNER: So I have to say, Gert Jan, youve made me feel kind of terrible about being American today. BROADCASTER: On the third trial, something happens. If you dont feel that, then you will be an unhappy person. We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. Kumail NANJIANI: I was so excited to be in America I couldnt sleep. The Coronavirus Shutdown Is Revealing Americas Troubling Obsession With Work, Those Who Stayed: Individualism, Self-Selection and Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration, A Rising Share of the U.S. Black Population Is Foreign Born, 10 Minutes with Geert Hofstede on Indulgence versus Restraint, 10 Minutes withGeert Hofstede on Masculinity versus Femininity, 10 Minutes with Geert Hofstede on Individualisme versus Collectivisme, Dimensionalizing Cultures: The Hofstede Model in Context, A Re-Inquiry of Hofstedes Cultural Dimensions: A Call for 21st Century Cross-Cultural Research, The Churching of America, 1776-2005: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy, Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Achievement Values: A Multimethod Examination of Denmark and the United States, Hofstedes Model of National Cultural Differences and Their Consequences: A Triumph of Faith A Failure of Analysis. In 1990, when Gelfand was a graduate student, she followed the news as Iraq invaded Kuwait. I have a professorship in Joburg in South Africa, too. He interviewed people at I.B.M. NEAL: I think thats always been a tension in Black culture, around this idea of Americas rugged individualism and the collectivity of Blackness that was born out of necessity because of segregation. HENRICH: They are self-enhancing, which means they try to promote their attributes. NEAL: You have no real other example of a country that has brought together so many different national and ethnic and racial backgrounds. The individual agents/brokers only take a $150 hit after their costs/fees. Mobility also produces looseness, because its harder to agree upon any norm. We need to have different types of leadership. "The conventional wisdom is often wrong.". As an Amazon Associate, Freakonomics may earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through links on this site. 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