Sentences with phrase «individualistic cultures we live in»

It would be naiive to think that there is not a little of that in all of us the — inclination to be focused on «me» encouraged by the individualistic cultures we live in.

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The individualistic and essentially Protestant culture of America, he observes, would seem to be inhospitable to the inescapably hierarchical character of Catholicism in both its self «organization and its understanding of the Christian life.

Without being individualistic, highland culture assigns great worth to people as the essential elements of community life; in such a situation toleration is almost an absolute.

Consistent with a gene - by - environment (GxE) theory of affective disorders, reduced exposure to chronic life stress for individuals living in collectivistic relative to individualistic cultures would then cause reduced prevalence of affective disorders among genetically susceptible individuals.

A collectivistic culture values harmony within the group, and the individual gain is considered to be less important than improvement of the social group.14 Embarrassment may be more common in collectivistic cultures because it is induced by external sanctions.15 «Taijin kyofusho» (the fear of offending or embarrassing the other person) is an example of a culturally specific expression of anxiety in Asian countries.16 Biological evidence also showed that people who live in collectivist cultures are more likely than those in individualistic cultures to have a form of the serotonin transporter gene that correlates with higher rates of anxiety and depression.17

By contrast, for people living in individualistic cultures, heightened selective attention and increased amygdala response to negative information may be disadvantageous to achieving individualistic cultural norms of self - expression and assertion of self - interests.