Rule Makers, Rule Breakers : How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World

In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers celebrated cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand takes us on an epic journey through human cultures, offering a startling new view of the world and ourselves. With a mix of brilliantly conceived studies and surprising on-the-ground discoveries, she shows that much of the diversity in the way we think and act derives from a key difference—how tightly or loosely we adhere to social norms.Why are clocks in Germany so accurate while those in Brazil are frequently wrong? Why do New Zealand’s women have the highest number of sexual partners? Why are “Red” and “Blue” States really so divided? Why was the Daimler-Chrysler merger ill-fated from the start? Why is the driver of a Jaguar more…
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• twitter .com/MicheleJGelfand/status/1212794797615910914 (‘ Michele J. Gelfand ‘)
• en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Michele_J._Gelfand (‘ Michele J. Gelfand est une psychologue culturelle, mieux connue pour être une experte de la théorie de l étroitesse et du relâchement, qui explique les variations de la force des normes sociales et des punitions entre les groupes humains. Elle est actuellement professeur émérite à l Université du Maryland, College Park. ‘)
• translate.google .com
• theguardian .com/commentisfree/2020/jan/02/authoritarian-leaders-people-safe-voters (‘ Les dirigeants autoritaires prospèrent grâce à la peur. Nous devons aider les gens à se sentir en sécurité ‘)