Americans gravitated toward individualism as people spread out in a new land that seemed wide-open with many opportunities. Many had to make individual decisions to come to America in the first place.

The existence of millions of American reactionaries, who despise public health measures that save lives like their own, seems to attest to our nation’s storied obsession with individualism. As a ...

Judging from casual conversations and media reports on loneliness, it appears that many assume loneliness is primarily a problem in individualistic cultures. By contrast, people in collectivistic ...

Culture is a belief about ethics, behaviors and values that are held by a majority of people within a society. The culture of which we are a part impacts our identity and even our beliefs about the ...

What causes individuals to conform to the opinions and judgments of others? Why do they need to? When is it an advantage to merge with the group and when is it not? Investigating the social, ...

What does a classroom look like that responds to both individualist and collectivist approaches? Critical thinking is a core learning outcome for all Piedmont University graduates. So, students ...

It's a first: approximately 100 scientists in 42 countries joined forces to learn about the incidence of parental burnout. They found that Western countries are the most affected by parental burnout.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently suggested that coronavirus infections are higher in the UK than Germany or Italy because Britons love freedom more, and find it harder to adhere to control ...

This is an interesting joint guest column by Mariajose Montoya Talavera, a rising junior education major at Piedmont University from Honduras, and her professor Perry Rettig, a former vice president ...