collectivistic
Americanadjective
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People in collectivistic cultures actually do better with a particular type of creative thinking than people in individualistic cultures.
From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022
If we zoom out, the differences between China’s individualistic north and collectivistic south might offer a microcosm for ideas that people have held about the “collectivistic East and individualistic West” writ large.
From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022
For instance, around the world, individualistic cultures have more invention patents than collectivistic cultures do.
From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022
When broken down into components, in fact, students from collectivistic regions scored higher in adaptive creativity.
From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022
They are sociological: exhibiting the ceaseless collision of individualistic and collectivistic tendencies, they teach forbearance, and patience, and the will to face the facts—tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
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