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Moral Development, Delayed Gratification, and WEIRD Psychology

By Richard Grego Cross Cultural Traditions

July 1st, 2022 Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel’s famous and oft-referenced “marshmallow experiment” (1960’s --1990) appeared to confirm a very valuable and common sense intuition about the nature and development of…

Pressure and work: positive vs. negative

By Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra Conflict Resolution

When the pressure is from outside, when it is aggressive, the results can be disastrous.

Descartes, Foucault, and Confucius on Individual and Relational Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

By Richard Grego Cross Cultural Traditions, World Philosophies & Religions

May 21st, 2022 The idea of self-identity as ‘relational’ (inseparable and indistinguishable from the many psycho-social roles, forces, and interactions which comprise it), rather than independent or individual, may seem…

What Buffalo teaches us

By Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra Conflict Resolution

Buffalo teaches us unless we scrutinize ourselves, reexamine our own biases and prejudices, the violence will continue whether at the level of communities, or beyond communities.