Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together

Yearning for certainty attracts us to peer codes because we gain a feeling of certainty from consensus.

to explain the outcome.

that corruption is largely cultural and (in part for that reason) changeable.

Scholars began to appreciate that it was not simply collective institutions or individual psychologies that determined culture, but the interplay between them. Cultural institutions shape the individual’s mind, and the individual’s mind shapes cultural institutions. [14]Culture and psyche are inexorably intertwined.

Further research has found that not all bicultural individuals are alike in this respect: those who feel their

Its scholars study many different kinds of cultural groups—from hunter-gatherer clans to corporations to nations—investigating cognitive structures, social structures, biases, and behaviors.

A culture evolves as some elements are learned and others are overlooked as the rising generation re-creates the society. Close studies implicate particular biases in social learning. Conformity bias means that widespread customs are more likely to be learned than rare customs. Prestige bias means that those associated with success and status are m

that the role of culture is variable, not constant.

Hiddink believed that cultural backgrounds and identities influence players, but not so rigidly that they are limited to one style.