#416 Evert Van de Vliert: Climate, Economics, Affluence, Social Organizations, and Culture
RECORDED ON NOVEMBER 4th 2020.
Dr. Evert Van de Vliert received his PhD from the Free University in Amsterdam in 1973 and held teacher and researcher positions at the same university, at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and at the Royal Military Academy in the Netherlands. He served as chairman of the Dutch Research Association of Social and Organizational Psychologists (1984–1989) and as research director of the Kurt Lewin Institute (1993–1996). He has published more than 200 journal articles, chapters, and books including Complex Interpersonal Conflict Behaviour: Theoretical Frontiers (1997). In 2005, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association for Conflict Management. At present, he is professor emeritus of organizational psychology at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. His current research concentrates on cross-national comparisons, with an emphasis on the impact of cold, temperate, and hot climates on national and organizational cultures.
In this episode, we talk the climato-economic approach to culture. The interview is divided into five sections: an introduction to the climato-economic niche model to culture; how the environment influences family constitution and gender roles; work and organizations (including political organizations); how cultures changes with climate variation; and exceptions and limitations of the model.
Time Links:
Intro to the climato-economic model (niche)
Families and gender
Work and organizations
Climate variation and cultural changes
Exceptions and limitations
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