Psühholoogia bioloogiline-, kognitiivne- ja sotsiaalne vaade
A more devastating attack on him is the findings that individualism and
collectivism are essentially independent or uncorrelated with each other. Gelfand et
al. have found out from presenting concepts relating to individualism, collectivism
and authoritarianism to American students, that individualism and collectivism were
not related and that there was a strong negative correlation between individualism and
authoritarianism. In general, individuals want to control their own lives, whereas
authoritarians want to control other people's lives.
A second dimension is uncertainty versus avoidance, which deals with a society's
tolerance for uncertainty and ambiguity. It indicates on how comfortable the
individuals in a society feel in unstructured situations. Uncertainty-avoiding cultures
try to minimize the possibility of unknown surprising situations by strict laws and
regulations, safety and security measures and on the philosophical and religious level,
by a belief in absolute Truth
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