Event scheduling is a group decision-making process in which social dynamics influence people’s choices and the overall outcome. As a result, scheduling is not simply a matter of finding a mutually agreeable time, but a process that is shaped by social norms and values, which can highly vary between countries. To investigate the influence of national culture on people’s scheduling behavior we a...

Collectivists know themselves better than individualists do, in that collectivists provide more accurate self-predictions of future behavior in situations with moral or altruistic overtones. In 3 studies, respondents from individualist cultures overestimated the likelihood that they would act generously in situations involving redistributing a reward (Study 1), donating money (Study 2), or avoi...

This article considers the path of social policy and democracy in Australia and the latest set of welfare reforms under Labor. The reforms can be seen to mark a reaction to the excesses of neoliberal government on the one hand, but they also represent continuity in neoliberal thought and policy on the other. As we shall see, engrained ideas about individualist wage-earning welfare, that were es...

The idea of the creative individualist spawning innovations as a solitude effort is no longer realistic. Huge innovation projects, relying on project teams, have to be permanently conducted by organizations to assure their competitiveness. These projects often take place in distributed teams, making use of groupware to bridge temporal and geographical distances. Research in social psychology on...

For a large homogeneous population, where individuals rely on the availability of resource for survival, we introduce continuous time model in and each individual. In this framework, cooperation is defined as mutual insurance mechanism, aimed at covering shortages group members. We explore essential questions regarding importance cooperation: what are characteristics populations valuable, versu...

This paper addresses the question, “Does lenders’ culture affect their monitoring efforts and style?”, by exploring whether lender individualism affects loan of U.S. borrowers for a sample 27,164 syndicated facilities granted between 1998 2017. We proxy based on ancestral country origin lead bank's CEO. show that leads to less stringent style. find individualist lenders resort covenant monitori...

Critics have faulted the project of general psychology for conceptions truth that (1) emphasize basic processes abstracted from context and (2) rest on a narrow foundation research among people in enclaves Eurocentric modernity. Informed by these critiques, we propose decolonial perspectives as new scholarly imaginary Otherwise. Whereas hegemonic articulations tend to ignore life majority-world...

In the present research, we examine how culture influences individuals’ reactions to financial offenders. We hypothesized that horizontal individualists deploy increased active (i.e., punishment-oriented) whereas vertical collectivists passive condemning beliefs) Moreover, would react stronger a offender when an offense has instrumental related material costs) as opposed symbolic one’s self-ima...

Many personal factors can also be effective in people's decision to migrate addition environmental factors. Having individualistic or collectivist tendencies is thought one of these In this study, we will examine the relationship between willingness young people ages 18-30 living Turkey and their individualism-collectivism towards migration. The level life satisfaction, which on desire migrate,...

Complaints processes and their governance in UK higher education (HE) have received little critical scrutiny, despite expanded role under the increasing marketisation of HE. This article draws on interviews with students who attempted to make complaints staff sexual misconduct HE institution. It outlines four groups among interviewees according ‘remedy’ that they obtained, describing how most c...