How The Invisible Influence of Culture Shapes Our Behavior | Michele Gelfand (opens in new tab)

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. Michele Gelfand is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Sta...