And Im particularly interested in how its shaped our psychology. Hannah GADSBY: Have you ever noticed how Americans are not stupid? Culturally maybe more than anything! I hate to call out Michele Gelfand, but even in the loosest of cultures, dogs dont have unfettered access to food. That is something that fundamentally many whites dont understand, right? And the rest is history, if you like. My uncles like, Hey, I have something to show you. My first day in America, he showed me the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. That would be very beneficial because now you might be going down the path of civil war, really. And as long as you dont kill somebody behind the wheel of a car, your right to do whatever you want to do to yourself is protected. (This is part of theFreakonomics RadioAmerican Culture series). Insight, for the authors (economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner) is all about explaining behaviour in terms of the incentives and dis-incentives (rewards and penalties) that drive it. Joe Henrichs research into national psychologies led him to an even more fascinating conclusion. We need to change our practices. If youre a constrained sort of person, you wont go far in the U.S. Stephen DUBNER: Im curious whether youve ever been accused of political incorrectness in your study of national cultures. Theres a good side of every dimension, including uncertainty avoidance. We can think about extraordinarily loose contexts like Tesla or Uber that probably need a little more structure. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. HOFSTEDE: Yes, of course. And how does a scholar like Neal think about culture per se? HOFSTEDE: I like this question a lot. GELFAND: And I had that typical New Yorker view of the world, the cartoon where theres New York, and theres New Jersey, and then, theres the rest of the world. HOFSTEDE: In the U.S.A., the boss needs to be a team player. 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. I dont like to itch, Bert. Whatd they say? GELFAND: Weve had our share of threat, but just not chronic threat. The second one measures what's called "power distance." (Don't worry, we'll explain the name . The U.S. also has a small power distance 40 on a scale of 100, which puts it among the lowest in the world. In each chapter, the authors analyze a different social issue from an economic perspective. International, and they were just starting international opinion surveys. 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. Well find out what it means to be WEIRD although not weird in the way youre thinking. Each and every person has individual reasons for pursuing a career, or goal. SuperFreakonomics was the follow-up in 2009. So, yeah, that is WEIRD. Around this time, he started doing some teaching at the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. So the Singapore government says, Look, this is our culture The rest of that sentence didnt have to be said. The negotiations didnt work out. The examples include: school teachers and sumo wrestlers cheating, the Ku Klux . The incentives of just any regular person are greatly shown because money or personal gain can take over any man or woman no matter how old. The U.S. is overall relatively loose. Baker was Bushs secretary of state; Aziz was Husseins deputy prime minister. Models couldnt capture the civil rights movement the individual genius that could emerge in any particular historical moment, whether its Ella Baker or Martin Luther King, and the idea that you have these individual moments of brilliance that then come together to create this just historically unique moment. Essentially, theyre the opposite of the loose attributes: tight cultures have more coordination and more self-control. And thats different than in Scandinavia and in New Zealand and Australia, which has much more horizontal individualism. Go out there and make it happen. Here in the U.S., its actually a rule violation to call out people who are violating norms. DUBNER: And Im guessing youre the spontaneous type. The third measures masculinity versus femininity in a given culture. Between 1967 and 1973, he collected data on I.B.M. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Part of the Freakonomics Series) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J . I think Joe Biden, for instance, hes trying to play the card of, Were all Americans. Because for all the so-called globalization of the past half-century or so, the U.S. still differs from other countries in many ways. GELFAND: If youre in contexts where theres a lot of rules, you develop from a very early age that impulse control. We had a very tight social order. He was a professor in both the economics and psychology departments, which was weird in its own way lower-case weird since Henrich had never taken a course in either subject. Follow. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as supremely WEIRD) as America? DUBNER: And what would you say is maybe a political ramification of low power distance? Most sociologists agree that individualistic cultures value individual choice, personal freedom, and self-actualization (Kemmelmeier 2002). HOFSTEDE: Yes, especially by people from Anglo countries. Its trying to include all the stuff that we acquire as a consequence of growing up in different environments, and contrast that with things like our sex drive, which doesnt seem to be acquired by observing others. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. We visit the world's busiest airport to see how it all comes together. Really? For example, we asked bank managers some years ago to look through scenarios of people violating organizational rules, like coming to work late, staying on the phone too long, maybe checking their email. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million? The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. GADSBY: Have you ever noticed how Americans are not stupid? GELFAND: They talk about individualistic accomplishments. In indulgent societies, more people play sports, while in restrained societies, sports are more something you watch. Its more about how individuals are acted upon by the people and institutions around them. Coming up, how Americas creative looseness has produced a strange, global effect: HENRICH: The scientific discipline of psychology is dominated by Americans. Spoiler alert: This dimension is one of the six in which the U.S. is the biggest outlier in the world. 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. GELFAND: The next day, I booked a trip to Egypt. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. HOFSTEDE: Oh, no, thats something for academia. And then he decided to go to academia. I personally expect at some point in the not very far future to have another wave of youthful optimism and find a way to say, Look, guys, we can do it, the future could be bright. When most readers think economics, they think advanced math, complicated models, and subjects like unemployment, the stock market, and the trade deficit. The U.S. assembled a coalition of allies. According to a decades-long research project, the U.S. is not only the most individualistic country on earth; were also high on indulgence, short-term thinking, and masculinity (but low on uncertainty avoidance, if that makes you feel better). So, say its $100, and the first player can offer a portion of the $100 to a second player. NEAL: I often think about how the U.S. has historically thought about freedom and how, say, the Soviet bloc had talked about freedom. And so individualism, trust in others, leads to more rapid innovation. HOFSTEDE: This is actually a little bit of an unfortunate name. Capital W-E-I-R-D, which stands for: HENRICH: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. So, Japan has been hit by Mother Nature for centuries. Why arent all national cultures converging by now? The U.S. patent database goes back into the 18th century and what a number of studies in economics as well as work in my lab has shown is that openness to other people so, trust in strangers, an inclination towards individualism, a desire to stand out, to be the smartest guy in the room fosters more rapid innovation because people are more likely to exchange ideas, theyre more interested in distinguishing themselves. We bring in neuroscience to understand all things cultural. In our previous episode, we made what may sound like a bold claim. Freakonomics, which weighs in at just over 200 pages (plus a hefty section of bonus material for those interested in learning more), takes as its principal argument the idea that economics exist as a tool to study society. Published: 31 October 2020. 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? But it was serious. 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. The individual agents/brokers only take a $150 hit after their costs/fees. IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. In the Germanic world, we have systems, which means that nothing stands alone. HOFSTEDE: In an individualistic society, a person is like an atom in a gas. Thats Joe Henrich, a professor of evolutionary biology. So you see these eye movements that are very different. We promise no spam. You can followFreakonomics RadioonApple Podcasts,Spotify,Stitcher, orwherever you get your podcasts. On a certain level, this is obvious: These are cultures that have norms and traditions that have endured for centuries. For instance: According to the 6-D Model of National Culture that weve been talking about, the U.S. is the most individualistic nation on earth. I mean, youve got your quota, as have we all, but youre not. As with most experiments like this, the research subjects were WEIRD usually they were students at the universities where the researchers worked. (Part 1 of " Freakonomics Radio Takes to the Skies .") But it can make life harder for the millions of Americans who arent so entrepreneurial, or rugged, or individualistic. The U.S., according to this analysis, is comparatively a short-term country. Freakonomics is a registered service mark of Renbud Radio, LLC. Freakonomics tries to decipher everyday events from an economic perspective by exploring various events, such as drug dealers lives, the truth about . 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. 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. GELFAND: We have a lot of work to do, theres no question. More information on phishing. Chronic threat meaning a country is prone to natural disasters, or disease, or hostile invaders. Factor analysis being a way to distill a large number of variables into an index, essentially a ranking. HENRICH: This cashes out in an ability to make better abstract or absolute judgment. HOFSTEDE: There was a Quaker at the head of I.B.M. People tend to be super-creative and theres a lot of negotiation of rules. Henrichs next example is more behavioral than physiological. Good on you, I say. DUBNER: What problem was he, and later you, trying to solve by doing this work? And democratic. employees in more than 50 countries. Culture can be quite an offensive concept, particularly to people who project it onto an individual characteristic, as if it was about an individual. But if youre not an economist, if youre a regular human being, you can see why the second player might reject a $1 offer. So uncertainty avoidance is the intolerance of ambiguity. Potentially offensive or not, Hofstede really believes in the power of culture so much so that he remains the steward of a massive research project begun more than 50 years ago by his late father. In our . It shouldnt surprise anyone that individualism might contribute to inequality or at least, as Henrich puts it, the justification of inequality. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming providers. We should note that Bert and Ernie, despite their differences, are very dear friends! Here in the U.S., its actually a rule violation to call out people who are violating norms. He takes on questions like: Why do kids with summer birthdays get the flu more often? DUBNER: So does all the data come from workplace interviews essentially of white-collar and pink-collar workers, or does it go broader than that? He considered a rate between 80 and 90 percent . DUBNER: Are you the creator of the looseness-tightness system for looking at culture? In the latest issue of American Scientist, statisticians Kaiser Fung and Andrew Gelman wrote a strong critique of Levitt and Dubner's work. A child is a child, and a parent is a parent, and a parent decides for the child. DUBNER: These are the two lines that are the same. But a lot of the world is much more like a family. Employees were asked to rate how much they agreed with statements like Competition among employees usually does more harm than good. And, Having interesting work is just as important to most people as having high earnings., HOFSTEDE: Simple questions about daily things that people understand. Because $1 is more than zero, so the second player would still be better off. 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. GELFAND: We have a whole new map of the U.S. where we can actually rank-order the U.S. 50 states in terms of how much threat they have. GELFAND: When we ask people, What does honor mean to you? in the U.S., a lot of people talk about work. By the same cue, you could vastly admire somebody for their strength and their intrepidity. You have to pronounce it right. DUBNER: Describe for me your father and his work, and how it became a family business. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, show that increasing socioeconomic development is an especially strong predictor of increasing individualistic practices and values . We had a lot of struggles with tightening during Covid, clearly. Where would you think the U.S. ranks among all the countries measured on this dimension? Tight cultures, she writes, are usually found in South and East Asia, the Middle East, and in European countries of Nordic and Germanic origin.. Individualism once . 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. Out into the ocean where they were caught by people on jet skis. Joe Henrich points out that even our religions are competitive. And then theres the big C, the stuff that we have these big conversations about, that we do these incredible studies about, which is really about the worldview of groups of people coming together, in a community, in a nation, in a family, right? The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. HOFSTEDE: It means that you only need rules when youre going to use them. Everybody gets tickled until they laugh. Fundamentally, individualism is a belief that the individual is an end in themself. It was: And your culture, your American culture, is very different. At this point, we should probably define terms. In another condition, they were wearing tattoos and nose rings and purple hair. So rules for the sake of having rules are not good. Comprising four main documentary segments, each made by a different director -- including Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock, Taxi to the Dark Side's Alex Gibney, Why We Fight's Eugene Jarecki, and Jesus Camp's Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady-- the film examines . And I think that America has wonderful things happening to it. Like, the military should be tighter than tech. Whether this means something brings you financial, emotional, or even community benefit. Weve interviewed dozens of academic researchers about lowering healthcare costs or improving access to childcare or building smarter infrastructure or creating a more equitable economy. BROADCASTER: The subject denies the evidence of his own eyes and yields to group influence. We presume male public voice. He wrote a paper about it. Subscribe for more videos like this: http://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=92YplusThe Best of Freakonomics with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, m. But, lets look at the pandemic from a different angle: which country produced the most effective Covid-19 vaccines? The ancient Romans. Whereas people from less individualistic societies tend to be better at making relative-size judgments. Theres not going to be violent crime. In any case, heres how Gelfand breaks down the upsides and downsides of tight cultures. Fortune, by the Hitchhikers; the rest of the music this week was composed byLuis Guerra. But somehow, that diversity and that early celebration of permissiveness has overridden that. 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. HENRICH: If you go to other societies, people are much more willing to give the same wrong answer to go along with others. All contents Freakonomics. Heres another culture metaphor another watery one from the Dutch culture scholar Gert Jan Hofstede. So keep your ears open for all that. If someone acts in an inappropriate way, will others strongly disapprove in this country? Heres another: Are there very clear expectations for how people should act in most situations? In 2018, Gelfand published a book of these findings called Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World. By the way, Gelfand doesnt really take a position on whether loose or tight is superior. DUBNER: I find that people who dont load dishwashers carefully are usually pretty loose with the planning. Joe HENRICH: Americans and Westerners more generally are psychologically unusual from a global perspective. Once he saw that differences were driven by nationality, Hofstede sensed he was on to something big. HENRICH: Im a researcher who tries to apply evolutionary theory to understand human behavior and human psychology and particularly culture. Again, its worth repeating that no culture is a monolith. SFU users should ignore all messages requesting Computing ID and/or password information, no matter how authentic they may appear. This suggests that every time a social scientist runs an experiment whose research subjects are WEIRD thats capital-letter WEIRD the results of that experiment may be meaningful in the U.S. and some other places, but quite likely not in others. HOFSTEDE: Thats my idea. So how much would you offer? In Brazil and Greece, youre not entirely sure what time it is. And so often, theyll just point at some other country on the map. Uncertainty in economics means something very akin to risk. Both are long-term oriented, so they see a lot of context around things. Read the following excerpt from Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics. Its called long-term versus short-term orientation. And theres large differences around the world, for example, on how much cultures are exposed to chronic threat. HENRICH: And this can include motivations, heuristics, biases, beliefs. I think those fundamental religious beliefs extend to the American view of what leadership should look like outside of the church in the corporation, in the legislatures, and what have you. 1 in individualism. HOFSTEDE: He did social psychological work on what it is to be a manager. Well go through the other five dimensions, much faster, I promise. Allen Lane 20, pp304. There, its really important to maintain that humility, to be focused on your privacy, but not trying to one-up other people. If youre violating the social order, youre going to be punished.. So that leads to justifying more inequality. NEAL: Were a country that presumes male leadership. Very soon, there will be an Institute of Gladwell Studies. You can think about it at the household level. It turns out that Americans were among the least likely to conform. That is generated by looseness. Its all the levels in the organization. HOFSTEDE: Which doesnt mean egoism, but it could go that way. individualism, political and social philosophy that emphasizes the moral worth of the individual. Rich. Because remember, threat is what can drive tightness. The New Yorker's Malcolm . In general, individualism can best be seen in laissez-faire capitalism and classical liberalism, which both emerged to prominence in Europe and North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. The authors argue that humans usually make decisions based on the incentives for their actions. (This is part of the, competition amongst religious organizations. And I could see there, a little bit similarly to the U.S., how the various ethnicities are trying to live together. 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. Neal is a professor of African and African-American studies. HOFSTEDE: So collectivistic cultures are those of the Amerindian empires. Why the business school? When it was time for college, Gelfand went all the way to upstate New York: Colgate University. Individualism has had a tremendous impact, not only on culture, but on social theory as well, and political philosophy in particular. But Joe Henrich wanted to see how the Ultimatum experiments worked when it wasnt just a bunch of WEIRD college students. Well hear about those dimensions soon enough. Michele Gelfand again: GELFAND: De Tocqueville noticed this about Americans, that we are a time is money country. Heres how he puts it in his latest book: You cant separate culture from psychology or psychology from biology, because culture physically rewires our brains and thereby shapes how we think. One example he gives is literacy. He would spend the rest of his life building out the 6-Dimension Model of National Culture. 1, the most individualistic country in the world, 91 out of 100 on the Hofstede scale of individualism. 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