Tag: Big Five personality traits
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Czechs and Germans: A shared border, two civilizations
Czechs and Germans live side by side. They share hundreds of years of history. They often work in the same firms, drive across the same borders, and belong to the same European structures. Yet in behavior, politics, language, and everyday life, they come from different mental planets. One thrives on structure. The other escapes it.…
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How can we scientifically measure culture?
Culture is one of the most powerful yet elusive forces shaping human behavior. It guides our values, language, dress, morality, habits, and ambitions. Yet despite its abstract nature, modern science has developed many sophisticated tools for measuring it. Culture is not only observable—it is quantifiable. Across disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, and neuroscience,…
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Free will and the wealth of the nations
I am not an Adam Smith and this article about free will and the wealth of nations is definitely not a sequel to his genius book. However, the article plays with the notion that nearly all people believe in free will. However there are major disparities between individual nations and their subsequent wealth. So where…
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Humanities vs. exact sciences
Some people claim exact sciences and humanities are on the same level. They say the same things are done with different tools. Nothing can be far from the truth. Imagine Newton’s physics in the 1600s. The extremely complex and provable system of equations and their geometric illustrations. The same thing goes with Einstein’s Theory of…