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Toward a social psychology of globalization

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In this paper, the authors address the questions of how people make sense of and respond to globalization and its sociocultural ramifications; how people defend the integrity of their heritage cultural identities against the "culturally erosive" effects of globalization, and how individuals harness creative insights from their interactions with global cultures.
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In most parts of the world, globalization has become an unstoppable and potent force that impacts everyday life and international relations. The articles in this issue draw on theoretical insights from diverse perspectives (clinical psychology, consumer research, organizational behavior, political psychology, and cultural psychology) to offer nuanced understanding of individuals’ psychological reactions to globalization in different parts of the world (Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Mainland China, Singapore, Switzerland, United States, Taiwan). These articles address the questions of how people make sense of and respond to globalization and its sociocultural ramifications; how people defend the integrity of their heritage cultural identities against the “culturally erosive” effects of globalization, and how individuals harness creative insights from their interactions with global cultures. The new theoretical insights and revealing empirical analyses presented in this issue set the stage for an emergent interdisciplinary inquiry into the psychology of globalization.

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Does individualism bring happiness? Negative effects of individualism on interpersonal relationships and happiness.

TL;DR: How cultural change toward increasing individualism might affect interpersonal relationships and well-being is discussed and it is shown that even in an individualistic workplace in Japan, individualistic values were negatively related with the number of close friends and SWB.
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The Happiness of Individuals and the Collective

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss future directions for happiness research, proposing several methodological and theoretical areas for progress in: (a) cross-temporal analyses to examine historical changes; and (b) multilevel analyses to identify the units of culture that affect happiness.
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Conceptualizing psychological processes in response to globalization: Components, antecedents, and consequences of global orientations.

TL;DR: The present research proposed a construct termed global orientation to denote individual differences in the psychological processes of acculturating to the globalizing world, which encompasses multicultural acquisition as a proactive response and ethnic protection as a defensive response to globalization.
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Psychology and Globalization: Understanding a Complex Relationship

TL;DR: The authors discusses the concept of globalization, its emergence, definitions, meanings, consequences, and critical implications for psychology, and discusses the role of globalization in the development of the human brain.
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Being environmentally responsible: Cosmopolitan orientation predicts pro-environmental behaviors

TL;DR: In this article, the authors defined cosmopolitan orientation as made up of three essential qualities: cultural openness, global prosociality, and respect for cultural diversity, and demonstrated the theoretical utility of CO in predicting PEB above and beyond pro-environmental worldview, motivation, and belief.
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

TL;DR: Based on the author's seminal article in "Foreign Affairs", Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism.
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Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture

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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

TL;DR: In this article, Appiah revives the ancient philosophy of cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world of today.
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The Nation-State and Violence

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