In my last post, we looked at the importance of culturability, “the relationship between culture and usability in WWW design” [1], and specifically, Power Distance [2], when designing online.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Michelle Yang. This is where collectivism comes into the picture. Unlike individualism, ...

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 ...

For decades, psychologists have used the concepts of individualism and collectivism to understand cross-cultural differences, particularly between East and West. Western societies exhibit independence ...

When Igor de Almeida moved to Japan from Brazil nine years ago, the transition should have been relatively easy. Both Japan and Brazil are collectivist nations, where people tend to value the group’s ...

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 ...