How The Invisible Influence of Culture Shapes Our Behavior | Michele Gelfand

<p>The culture we live in has an invisible influence over our individual and collective behaviors. The tendency towards openness or order in a society is expressed by Michele Gelfand, as the looseness or tightness of a culture. How loose or tight a country is can be correlated to the amount of threat the nation has faced in the past, and in turn, can indicate how its people will respond to a new threat, such as a global pandemic.</p> <p> </p> <p>Michele Gelfand is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Professor of Psychology by Courtesy at Stanford University. She wrote her book “<a href='https://amzn.to/37O7OSC'>Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives</a>” in the era before COVID. Despite that she astutely addressed how tight and loose nations would respond to the threat of a global pandemic. We were honored to have the time to chat more with Michele about this topic and many others in this episode. </p> <p> </p> Topics <p>(5:49) Welcome and speed round questions.</p> <p>(6:27) How culture influences our behavior. </p> <p>(10:26) How the threat to a nation influences how tight and loose cultures are.</p> <p>(13:21) What Bert and Ernie can teach us about our tight and loose personalities.</p> <p>(16:27) What factors influence our default tendency to be tight or loose people? </p> <p>(20:21) The global threat of the pandemic and how loose and tight cultures responded. </p> <p>(28:48) What Ukraine has taught us about national identity.</p> <p>(30:47) How can societies maximize both order and openness?</p> <p>(35:02) Can organizations instigate flexible tightness?</p> <p>(39:42) Do we have blind spots on how open we are?</p> <p>(43:26) How values and attitudes influence your behaviors in different cultures.</p> <p>(47:41) What nudge worked to encourage mask wearing among Republicans and Democrats?</p> <p>(51:50) The music that influences Michele’s work.</p> <p> </p> <p>© 2022 Behavioral Grooves</p> <p> </p> Links