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01 / belief
“I would say someone like Joe McGrath. He is deceased. He was a big groups researcher at Illinois when I was there.”
02 / belief
“I just don’t think it activates disgust. I would say the same thing with natural disasters.”
03 / belief
“I think that people, through socialization, through social learning, are trained to follow the norms of their previous generations.”
04 / belief
“I’m proud that my kids are in a context where they’re learning about different cultures. Now, I think you also learn a lot of other cultures in Bethesda as well.”
05 / belief
“I think that there’s some really smart, accessible types of papers that come out in HBR that help people to understand human behavior, give real-world examples of how they apply.”
06 / belief
“I think that because of the tenure process, because sometimes the demands of the task can actually cause tight or loose to evolve.”
07 / belief
“I would say that we’ve learned that culture is not random, that it evolves for semi-adaptive reasons, given the kinds of environments that people place.”
08 / belief
“I think that tight-loose is a dynamic construct that . . . what we can see, and I’ve collected data after, for example, the Boston bombing.”
09 / belief
“I would say that wealth is obviously very important. It predicts, in the collectivism literature, high levels of group orientation.”
10 / belief
“Oh. [laughs] I would say the politeness. In our research, loose states are very rude.”
11 / belief
“I would say that economics can be somewhat atheoretical in the sense that psychologists are concerned with mediating mechanisms.”
12 / belief
“As a result, it produces the desire for stronger rules and strong leaders. I think that looseness ebbs and flows.”
13 / belief
“I think that there are certain threats like violence that have been dramatically reduced, but there’s other collective threats that we have to be mindful of.”
14 / belief
“Any culture needs both tightness and looseness, and I would argue — and I talk about the Goldilocks principle that any culture that gets too extreme in terms of looseness or tightness has a lot of problems.”