A video interview with McKinsey Insights.

Enjoyed talking to @BusinessInsider about changes at @ChipotleTweets. Part of the problem is how the culture of different professions and industries infuse the culture of a company. Chipotle started as the side project of a serious chef and attracted.

Honored to be part of the international seminar celebrating Albert Bandura’s centenary, hosted by Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani in Indonesia. Bandura’s work fundamentally reshaped how we understand identity, agency, and learning—not only in psychology, but in cultural

Exciting insights about tribal psychology in a new paper by Namrata Goyal, Krishna Savani, and myself about the hardening of political positions! Our research builds on prior research by Arie Kruglanski and others connecting extremism with a state of mind called Need for

A new study featured by Adi Gaskell explores how online communities respond to false claims. One of its striking insights: people are less likely to challenge misinformation when it comes from someone they trust or identify with. This resonates deeply.

🎧 Full episode of Culture Matters with Subbu Kalpathi:

When we talk about #belonging, the conversation often centers on mission statements, team-building activities, and inclusion initiatives. But the deeper psychological drivers—our tribal instincts—are often overlooked. Our peer, hero, and ancestor instincts shape how we listen,.

Peace is possible from tribal thinking. In an op-ed in Daily Pioneer, Dr. Murani discusses tribes from an Indian perspective. India is the most culturally multitudinous nation with many creeds, castes, and tribes. He draws on TRIBAL to rethink attitudes.

“Our tribal instincts are not bugs”

Great conversation with John Miles, both an author on self-development and a veteran Fortune-50 executive.

RT @humangivens: Book Reviews - we have three books to recommend, all of which accord with and illuminate HG understandings. Tribal, by….

A heart-warming evening recently in Beijing. My wife Tatjana and I joined my old pal Kaiping Peng for a sumptuous fusion cuisine banquet. Then he and I sat down for his famous podcast about psychology and life. (Kaiping has become a Dean at Tsinghua University but also the Andrew

Have you ever softened your truth just to fit in—then felt off afterward?. In a recent conversation on The Ignited Life, John  R. Miles shared exactly this moment. Our Peer Instinct: the urge to align with our group is powerful—and often invisible.

Brown Alumni Magazine interviewed me about TRIBAL Brown is famously a place that nourishes artsy, left-leaning, free spirits. I was ready for skepticism about the upside of tribalism. But I found receptive audience, perhaps because Brown itself.

Belonging and tradition are a powerful forces in family enterprises. Drawing from my book Tribal, @Columbia_Biz explores how our innate instincts shape leadership and cohesion during times of change.

Honored to see TRIBAL featured in the Mexican micro-learning site @Brieffy this week. Glad to see the book making its way to Spanish-speaking audiences. 🇪🇸🌎 . The article highlights a core message of the book: that our cultural instincts—though often.

Sharing photos from a recent keynote talk in China at a conference on Sustainable Growth in the Digital Age. I shared insights from my book, TRIBAL, about the evolved cultural instincts that enabled early humans to start living in tribes and that still underpin solidarity and

Honored to share snapshots from the Award Ceremony last week in Xi'an. Deep gratitude to the global community of IACMR researchers for acknowledging my work. 🏆🌍

Grateful to see this thoughtful reflection from Greg Satell on the ideas in TRIBAL. His point about the importance of tribal signals in leadership couldn’t be more timely. We often think of tribalism as something to overcome—but the real challenge is.

Remember when Bill Gates was the 'meddling technocrat' that international development pundits complained about?. That's changed in the time of DOGE as Gates has stepped into the breach to mitigate some of the damage wrought by far less patient.