Historically, politically, and yes culturally. It means you really want to know and youre not satisfied until you know. The correct answer of the given question above would be the second option. Europe has very strong gradients between very individualistic Nordic and Anglo and Germanic countries; Germanic is a little bit more collectivistic. In another condition, they were wearing tattoos and nose rings and purple hair. You could argue that Peppers owner is the one who isnt very disciplined. Thats what the Ultimatum experiments set out to find. He grew up in England. The snob effect occurs when an individual's demand for a specific product increases when the number of units of that product other people purchase increases. Season 10, Episode 49. HOFSTEDE: This is a very American question, Stephen. In the latest issue of American Scientist, statisticians Kaiser Fung and Andrew Gelman wrote a strong critique of Levitt and Dubner's work. Because when youre living inside a culture well, thats the culture you know; it is what it is. Because remember, threat is what can drive tightness. We should be nice to one another. But when push comes to shove, most of the time it doesnt go that way. In a more masculine society, men and women adhere to the gender roles you might think of as patriarchal: fathers, for instance, take care of the facts, while mothers handle the emotions. Although it is more self-help than traditional economics it shares many of the weaknesses of more serious works in the discipline. But yes, its all workplace. HOFSTEDE: But it turned out that lumping them by nationality was the best thing to do. Culturally maybe more than anything! You might want to change, but if you get ostracized, its very difficult to persist. The book Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, is designed to pose fundamental questions concerning economics using a variety of imaginative comparisons and questions. HOFSTEDE: In an individualistic society, a person is like an atom in a gas. Freakonomics is therefore NOT the book that I would recommend to anyone interested in (a) learning economic theory, (b) learning about how economists think, or (c) understanding the world or thinking of ways to improve it. to let him focus even more on this data. In restrained societies, people tend to suppress bodily gratification, and birth rates are often lower; theres also less interest in things like foreign films and music. GELFAND: Places in the South have tended to have more natural disasters. I hate to call out Michele Gelfand, but even in the loosest of cultures, dogs dont have unfettered access to food. Oh say, can you see, the home run I just hit. 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 (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if . Whereas we usually describe a scent by saying something that it smells like.. This really contrasts with lots of places where there are legitimate traditional authorities and people tend to defer to those authorities. But everybody, of course, instinctively feels and should feel that their country, or whatever their tribe is, is the best in the world. Freakonomics Radiois produced by Stitcher and Renbud Radio. And I was like, This is every day in America! After reading Freakonomics it really opens the reader's eyes to unseen things in everyday life. But one has arrows going out and one in? And I think thats always going to be an ongoing tension this idea of America thats rooted in individualism, thats rooted in transactional practices. Neal sees a strong connection between U.S. masculinity and our appetite for work. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. And this led to this project where we did in lots of places hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, Africa, Papua New Guinea. Theres some D.N.A. High religiosity coupled with high individualism reveals another feature of American culture. Heres another example: HENRICH: People from more individualistic societies tend to focus on central objects. It always was unsustainable, but was made even more acute to us during the pandemic. Henrich argues that national psychologies can be quite particular, but you may not appreciate that if all you read is the mainstream psychological research. Once you begin looking for evidence, you see an almost infinite array of examples. When you have teenagers, youre tight, at least for me. Needless to say, it's had a lot of success. Bush made clear to Iraqs Saddam Hussein that this wouldnt stand. That is one of the main guests in todays episode. HOFSTEDE: High individualism is correlated with trying new stuff. 1424 Words. This individualism has produced tremendous forward progress and entrepreneurial energy. And it got the attention of President Clinton: Bill CLINTON: Its the first Ive heard of it, Ill look into it. But it can make life harder for the millions of Americans who arent so entrepreneurial, or rugged, or individualistic. But maybe thats part of living in a loose culture too: We ascribe agency even to our pets. In a society of small power distance, a lot. I came back to Colgate. Gert Jan HOFSTEDE: Culture is the ripples on the ocean of human nature. We look at how these traits affect our daily lives and why we couldn't change them . Freakonomics, M.D. Freakonomics Science 4.7 932 Ratings; Each week, physician and economist Dr. Bapu Jena will dig into a fascinating study at the intersection of economics and healthcare. How much time have you spent thinking about what makes America, America? And its by no means easy. Equating individualism with selfishness may be a mistake: Some of the world's wealthiest and most individualistic countries are some of the most altruistic, says 13.7 guest commentator Abigail Marsh. Theyre able to make finer distinctions in terms of their olfaction. DUBNER: What problem was he, and later you, trying to solve by doing this work? Theres a huge variation in how much spontaneity people like versus how much structure they want. One thing that I think that Americans are more extreme than other Western countries and certainly elsewhere in the world is attributing individual success to the internal traits of the actor. Gelfand would disagree. HOFSTEDE: And when he took the job in Lausanne, he found that the international group of pupils at his classes, if he asked them the same questions, came up with the same dimensions. Open Document. What was I.B.M. Henrich has also observed this about Americans. 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. 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 (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better). Henrich has written about the notion of time psychology.. Its all the levels in the organization. And it drives us crazy. They tend to veer tighter on our measures than places on the coast. And thats helped to produce the looseness that exists to this day. I was on the phone with my dad, and I said, You know, its really crazy, all the differences between the U.K. and the U.S.. Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. If . the Machiguenga were much closer to the predictions of Homo economicus, The Relationship Between Cultural TightnessLooseness and COVID-19 Cases and Deaths: A Global Analysis, States of Emergency: The Most Disaster-Prone States in the US, A Global Analysis of Cultural Tightness in Non-Industrial Societies, Have You Tried to Help Your Pet Lose Weight? And life is an adventure. HENRICH: So places like New York and London, people are blazing down the sidewalks. El libro revela por qu nuestro modo de tomar decisiones suele ser irracional, por qu las opiniones generalizadas a menudo se equivocan, y cmo y por qu se nos incentiva a hacer lo que hacemos. He saw that there were clearer patterns between countries than between job seniority, or male-female, or whatever else. Or if it will change at all. And there are other inconsistencies, especially in a country as large and diverse as the U.S. For instance, where you live. If they reject, both players get zero. She says these are merely visible indicators of a countrys tightness or looseness and its what you dont necessarily see that shapes a given countrys culture. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as supremely WEIRD) as America? Kumail NANJIANI: I was so excited to be in America I couldnt sleep. You had Woodstock, and youre going to have this kind of stuff happening again. Capital W-E-I-R-D, which stands for: HENRICH: Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic. Between 1967 and 1973, he collected data on I.B.M. And so often, theyll just point at some other country on the map. And I think that America has wonderful things happening to it. GELFAND: Groups that are of lower status tend to live in tighter worlds. 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. So I am actually optimistic. It also is related to obesity. DUBNER: I remember once, years and years ago, when I was reading this research that you were doing, speaking with Francisco Gil-White, who was then at Penn, and he told me that when he was running this Ultimatum experiment, I dont remember where I want to say Mongolia. (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better) 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. One of the areas of cultural study that first hooked her had to do with optical illusions. One of the defining features of Americanism is our so-called rugged individualism. You might even call it wild individualism. GELFAND: Its like that story of two fish where theyre swimming along. And thats because the vast majority of the research subjects are WEIRD. But some cultures strictly abide by their norms. Later on, fast forward, Pertti Pelto, whos an anthropologist. 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 . Freakonomics Summary. When they took out Mubarak, this went the opposite extreme to almost anomie, normlessness. So I have no doubt that his subjects really liked him. Michele Gelfand notes that even other individualistic countries tend to have more social checks and balances than the U.S. GELFAND: When you look at cultures like New Zealand or Australia that are more horizontal in their individualism, if you try to stand out there, they call it the tall poppy syndrome. Listen to this episode from Freakonomics Radio on Spotify. DUBNER: Are you the creator of the looseness-tightness system for looking at culture? The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. And I think this community-spiritedness has been built in us since we were very young. Theyre more permissive. Remember what he said earlier: HENRICH: So how it is that we acquire ideas, beliefs, and values from other people and how this has shaped human genetic evolution. Okay, you get the gist, right? Episode 470 The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. Categories like age, gender, job type, job seniority, and so on. 470 Replay) Freakonomics Radio | Freakonomics Radio Publicit Annonce - 0 s 00:00 00:00 Suivant | propos Voir la description Freakonomics Radio. HOFSTEDE: You could say these six dimensions of culture, they are perimeters to our sociality. Its part of our founding D.N.A. Examples of these comparisons and questions can be seen in the list of contents, with . 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 (but low on "uncertainty avoidance," if that makes you feel better). When Americans did this experiment, a third of them conformed and gave an obviously wrong answer. And so individualism, trust in others, leads to more rapid innovation. (This is part of theFreakonomics RadioAmerican Culture series). Nobody can feel insulted. You may decide to go another way, but that doesnt make the river change. It has to do with conformity. 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. Heres one of the questions they asked. HENRICH: And this can include motivations, heuristics, biases, beliefs. Individualism once . Those are the upsides. after? Uncertainty in economics means something very akin to risk. DUBNER: You sound very grateful that you were not born an American. Spoiler alert: This dimension is one of the six in which the U.S. is the biggest outlier in the world. And also, of course, people listening to this: Make it happen, come on. HOFSTEDE: In the U.S.A., individualism coupled with masculinity creates a society where if youre not a winner, youre a loser. Levitt's research on teacher cheating using Chicago Public Schools data.Clip from the 2010 documentary "Freakonomics: The Movie". He started working as an engineer during turbulent years of rebuilding, and soon became a personnel manager. Yes, the United States of America. Level of inequality C. Family composition D . For instance, the rhythm of vaccination in the U.S.A. is very fast. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Freakonomics. (8) My years of experience traveling in 100 . People who went out to California, I would say if we gave them the tight-loose mindset quiz, they were probably on the looser mindset. Freakonomics is a book about 'freaky' research and insight. Nevertheless, you might be able to intentionally create pockets of looseness so you can have more balance. Sinopsis. HOFSTEDE: There was a Quaker at the head of I.B.M. So uncertainty avoidance is the intolerance of ambiguity. The next dimension is what the Hofstedes call uncertainty avoidance.. Its focus on individual behaviour also lends itself to a preoccupation with manipulating individual choices. And in a collectivistic society, a person is like an atom in a crystal. But Bush also wanted to avoid going to war with Iraq. BROADCASTER: The subject denies the evidence of his own eyes and yields to group influence. So how much would you offer? And what does he have to say about American culture? And then in a third condition they were wearing just their face. You can never admit weakness or failure. The reason we reached out to Michele Gelfand is that I want to understand this stuff better, too. Our staff also includesAlison Craiglow,Greg Rippin,Joel Meyer,Tricia Bobeda,Mary Diduch, Zack Lapinski,Emma Tyrrell, Lyric Bowditch, Jasmin Klinger,andJacob Clemente. GELFAND: They were trained to ask for help in city streets and in stores. HENRICH: Im Joe Henrich. The negotiations didnt work out. Its an experiment developed in the early 1980s by, among others, the German economist Werner Gth . And how does this extraordinarily high level of individualism versus collectivism play out? Theyre not supposed to be the boss. We visit the world's busiest airport to see . We met him earlier, but just briefly; heres a proper introduction. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism. How do racial and ethnic minorities fit into the American looseness? NEAL: So its always evolving, its always developing, but theres some core principles. Offers went up as high as 55 or 60 percent in some places and then down around 25 percent in other places. Thats Joe Henrich, a professor of evolutionary biology. She argues that both styles have their upsides and their downsides. Youre culturally confident. But Im Dutch, of course. My uncles like, Hey, I have something to show you. My first day in America, he showed me the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. 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). HOFSTEDE: And this is before the 60s, before the 70s. And we found the full spectrum of variation. 47 min. Michele Gelfand has another example of how culture shapes perception. And so you walk faster because you cant get everything you need done in your day and youre always trying to get to the next event. BERT: Because: you get crumbs in the sheets, thats why. Heres Mark Anthony Neal of Duke: NEAL: Historically, power has been obscure. 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. 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? And this is what Europe has. Freakonomics (2005) aplica el anlisis econmico racional a situaciones cotidianas, desde las citas en lnea hasta la compra de una casa. data, gathered in the late 60s and early 70s. And I could see there, a little bit similarly to the U.S., how the various ethnicities are trying to live together. HOFSTEDE: They will look at them if they admire them, but they will look away if theyre afraid. People tend to be super-creative and theres a lot of negotiation of rules. And Im particularly interested in how its shaped our psychology. Out into the ocean where they were caught by people on jet skis. Its also important to recognize that even though were really connected, still people are largely in their echo chambers, interacting with people who they know. GELFAND: I was planning to become a cross-cultural trainer to work at the State Department and train people to understand culture. 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. The strongest parts of the original Freakonomics book revolved around Levitt's own peer-reviewed research. HENRICH: I was doing research in the Peruvian Amazon. And that also means that fighting is a good way to get what you want. As we heard, the first four dimensions originated with the I.B.M. 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. We will learn which countries are tight, which are loose, and why. He would spend the rest of his life building out the 6-Dimension Model of National Culture. So, say its $100, and the first player can offer a portion of the $100 to a second player. Whereas uncertainty avoidance means you have lots of etiquette and ritual. The second one measures whats called power distance. (Dont worry, well explain the name later.) And it should stay there. We bring in neuroscience to understand all things cultural. As for the U.S., Gelfand says the U.S. is not only loose but getting progressively looser. Innovation requires coming up with a lot of ideas. And I think, Holy cow, Ukraine is surrounded by threat, including its next-door neighbor, Russia. That relationship has not been a constant, but that makes me a little suspicious. NEAL: We realized that the grind is unsustainable. Now, lets pull back and make an important point: labeling a given country tight or loose is an overall, aggregate measurement. These were surveys of I.B.M.s own employees around the world. Lets flip it for a moment. DUBNER: Where is the loosest place in America? FREAKONOMICS is the highly anticipated film version of the phenomenally bestselling book about incentives-based thinking by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner.. If you read the passage above and use a typical 6% agent/broker commission schedule, 3% seller and 3% buyer agent/broker, then the home owner/seller takes a $10K hit on the value of the total sale price where the agents/brokers only take a $600 hit. Factor analysis being a way to distill a large number of variables into an index, essentially a ranking. There were a number of low offers of 15 percent, which didnt get rejected. To become American and to be American is to be individual. Theres far less stigmatization of people in terms of their race, their religion. You have to behave like a family member if you want to be one. Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition. What we saw in Egypt was very similar. 469). Now that weve taken a top-down view of how the U.S. is fundamentally different from other countries, were going to spend some time over the coming weeks looking at particular economic and social differences, having to do with policing, child poverty, infrastructure, and the economy itself. Heres another culture metaphor another watery one from the Dutch culture scholar Gert Jan Hofstede. It was there, and later on in travels in the Middle East, and working on a kibbutz, and elsewhere, that I started recognizing this really powerful force of culture that was incredibly important but really invisible. GELFAND: And there was discussion in the cross-cultural psychology community about how James Bakers unemotionalcommunication style was received as This is not so serious, in terms of Tariq Azizs understanding of Americans intentions. In the N.F.L., the long snapper is . That is something that fundamentally many whites dont understand, right? They want to be happy. Here are some things that tend to thrive in highly individual societies: human rights, a free press, divorce, and a faster pace of life. But Gelfand saw an even bigger question: How can you understand culture if you dont know exactly what it is? But first, Hofstede had to make sure that the differences he was seeing in the data werent specific to I.B.M. HOFSTEDE: If I had been born in America, I would have liked it, probably, because I would have been used to it. So, yes, the same attributes that can be a big problem can also be a big boost. In our . The Ultimatum game is famous among social scientists. That, again, is Mark Anthony Neal, from Duke. There is some overlap between these six dimensions and some of the ideas we talked about in last weeks episode particularly the notion that some national cultures tend to be tight and others loose. The Pros and Cons of America's (Extreme) Individualism: With Stephen Dubner. The final dimension on the Hofstede model is called indulgence versus restraint. So Hofstede the Elder began to amass a huge data set about the workplace experiences and preferences of tens of thousands of I.B.M. Thats a crazy, creative solution to try to deal with the pandemic. So, they would offer a mean of about 25, 26 percent. 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. By late 2009, the book had sold over 4 million copies worldwide. So this is not about, Is world peace important?, HOFSTEDE: For instance, Is it important for you to have a good working relationship with your boss? Or Is it a good idea for people to maybe have more than one boss?. We do lab experiments, field experiments, computational modeling. Once he saw that differences were driven by nationality, Hofstede sensed he was on to something big. Everybody gets tickled until they laugh. But its also a tremendous outlier. Michele Gelfand and several co-authors recently published a study in The Lancet about how Covid played out in loose versus tight cultures. (Part 1 of "Freakonomics Radio Takes to the Skies.") 58 min. And that really can help explain some variation not all, but some variation in norms and values. Okay, it took half of this episode to go through just the first of the six dimensions of national culture individualism versus collectivism. Its hard in either direction not just because some cultures are tighter than others. Whereas in countries that are bogged down in cronyism and corruption, it doesnt happen. 470. Self-centered so if you give them tasks and have them list traits about themselves, theyll tend to list their attributes and characteristics rather than their relationships. DUBNER: What are some of the consequences of being relatively tolerant of uncertainty, as the U.S. is? employees. We put in a bunch of other checks and controls. Which is probably why we dont hear all that much about the science of culture. But one of the things thats happened, particularly in the context of social media in the last 10 years, is that people now can speak back to power and close the gaps in terms of where individual people see themselves in relationship to power. Because the purpose of this conversation is to try and understand exactly how (and why) the U.S. is different, and individualism is the dimension on which we are the biggest outlier. It was a collaboration between Hofstede the Elder, his son Gert Jan, whod begun working with him by now, and a Bulgarian linguist named Michael Minkov, who had been analyzing data from the World Values Survey. They can freely float about. HOFSTEDE: So youre asking about cultural convergence. DUBNER: When youre inclined to look at the U.S. in a positive light, do you find uncertainty avoidance to be largely a force for the good in terms of creating and building a strong society, or do you think its more ? BROADCASTER: On the third trial, something happens. So that leads to justifying more inequality. We look at how these traits affect our daily lives and why we couldnt change them even if we wanted to. We need to change our practices. Singapore, for instance. 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