Oct 20, 2019
Most people think of cultural differences in terms of race,
class, nationality, or religion. Michele Gelfand introduces
the concept of 'tight" and "loose", which cuts across all of those
other categories.
Michele is a distinguished professor of psychology at the
University of Maryland, College Park and joins David to
discuss cultural diversity from an evolutionary perspective
and more, including why the working class cares more about
following the rules, the fractal nature of social norms, gamma
wave synchrony in response to threat, and the strengths and
limits of a tight-loose axis approach.
Links from the
Episode
00:56- Michele's book, Rule
Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our
World
22:26-
Michele's response to David and Harvey Whitehouse's TVOL
article,
"Developing the Field Site Concept for the Study of Cultural
Evolution"
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