Jean M. Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University and the author of 10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World. She also writes the Generation Tech Substack. For years, it ...

While having a variety of choices is widely seen as a positive consequence of economic development, what impact does this explosion of choice have on the psyche of the individual, and further, society ...

Good news fellow libertarians: We are winning! Individualism is rising across the world, according to a forthcoming study in Psychological Science by a team of Canadian and American psychologists who ...

Individualism is thought to be on the rise in Western countries, but new research suggests that increasing individualism may actually be a global phenomenon. The findings show that increasing ...

For a long time, Western nations have been moving away from values that emphasize family ties and fitting in, and toward more individualistic values such as independence, uniqueness, personal choice, ...

Many American small businesses emphasize individualism, the focus on each employee as an individual with strengths and talents, over collectivism, or the focus on the company as a whole rather than on ...

This story is part of the New Boom series on millennials in America. They are a class of self-centered, self-absorbed, selfie-snapping 20-somethings. This is how many critics have come to define the ...

BEIJING, CHINA - March 23: People wearing masks as part of precautionary measures against the spread of the COVID-19 on March 23, 2020 in Beijing, China. Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to ...

Abigail Marsh is an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Georgetown University and author of the book The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In ...