Are Americans more individualistic and less collectivistic than members of other groups? The authors summarize plausible psychological implications of individualism-collectivism (IND-COL), meta-analyze cross-national and within-United States IND-COL differences, and review evidence for effects of IND-COL on self-concept, well-being, cognition, and relationality. European Americans were found to...

Anticipated self-conscious emotions, such as pride and guilt, help individuals to behave in line with their personal and social standards regarding the environment. We seek to explore whether this selfregulatory role of anticipated pride and guilt functions similarly across individuals from different cultures (N 1⁄4 3854). We show that there are no differences across countries in the self-regul...

It is generally recognized that descriptive and normative individualism are logically independent theses. This paper defends the stronger view that recognition of the falsehood of descriptive individualism is crucial to understanding the evolutionary and developmental basis of normative individualism. The argument given for this is not analytic; rather, it is based on empirical generalizations ...

In this talk I’m going to suggest that some fundamental problems in Game Theory can be resolved by supposing that individual players can, without any communication, coalesce and act like supraindividual agents. The modus operandi of these superagents has several features of the systems of arti...cial agents of Computer Science. I hope my proposal may help towards opening one more pathway betwee...

We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The main result is that, despite facing potentially larger collective action problems, countries with an individualistic culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical analysis suggests a strong and robust associa...

Because of an interpersonal world view, Ubuntu provides a much-needed reference point for navigating contentious issues both political and spiritual discourse. The intent, in this instance, is not so much polemic against individualism as it reckoning with how Christian spirituality per se matters the academy public spheres. concept “Ubuntu” complements that conceptualisation moves us beyond not...

Many studies have shown that American culture has become more individualistic over time. However, it was unclear whether other cultures, especially East Asian cultures, have also shifted toward greater individualism. Therefore, this article reviewed studies investigating temporal changes in individualism in Japan and their ramifications on psychology and behavior. Japan has experienced rapid an...