Advances and open questions in the science of subjective well-being

E Diener, RE Lucas, S Oishi - Collabra: Psychology, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
Subjective well-being (SWB) is an extremely active area of research with about 170,000
articles and books published on the topic in the past 15 years. Methodological and …

The cultural evolution of emotion

KA Lindquist, JC Jackson, J Leshin… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Scholarly debates about the nature of human emotion traditionally pit biological and cultural
influences against one another. Although many existing theories acknowledge the role of …

Beyond the 'east–west'dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

VL Vignoles, E Owe, M Becker, PB Smith… - Journal of …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract Markus and Kitayama's (1991) theory of independent and interdependent self-
construals had a major influence on social, personality, and developmental psychology by …

Frontier culture: The roots and persistence of “rugged individualism” in the United States

S Bazzi, M Fiszbein, M Gebresilasse - Econometrica, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of a westward‐moving frontier of settlement shaped early US history. In 1893,
the historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously argued that the American frontier fostered …

Multicultural experiences: A systematic review and new theoretical framework

WW Maddux, JG Lu, SJ Affinito… - … of Management Annals, 2021 - journals.aom.org
As globalization has become a defining issue for business and society, an increasing
amount of research has examined how multicultural experiences affect a variety of …

Cultural change: The how and the why

MEW Varnum, I Grossmann - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
More than half a century of cross-cultural research has demonstrated group-level differences
in psychological and behavioral phenomena, from values to attention to neural responses …

Outside the “cultural binary”: Understanding why Latin American collectivist societies foster independent selves

K Krys, VL Vignoles, I De Almeida… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Cultural psychologists often treat binary contrasts of West versus East, individualism versus
collectivism, and independent versus interdependent self-construal as interchangeable, thus …

The political effects of immigration: Culture or economics?

A Alesina, M Tabellini - Journal of Economic Literature, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss
the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing …

Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality: The cases of strong family ties and heightened religiosity

CL Fincher, R Thornhill - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2012 - cambridge.org
Throughout the world people differ in the magnitude with which they value strong family ties
or heightened religiosity. We propose that this cross-cultural variation is a result of a …

Neither Eastern nor Western: Patterns of independence and interdependence in Mediterranean societies.

AK Uskul, A Kirchner-Häusler, VL Vignoles… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Social science research has highlighted “honor” as a central value driving social behavior in
Mediterranean societies, which requires individuals to develop and protect a sense of their …