Highlights•Human societies are variable: interpersonal relationships and group
memberships can be flexible or fixed.•This variability in ecological relational mobility affects …

Many studies have shown that American culture has become more individualistic over time.
However, it was unclear whether other cultures, especially East Asian cultures, have also …

In the current research, we investigated whether belief in conspiracy theories satisfies
people's need for uniqueness. We found that the tendency to believe in conspiracy theories …

Past research has documented various cultural and psychological changes in contemporary
China. In two studies, we examine how Chinese people's need for uniqueness (NFU) also …

We hypothesized that individuals in cultures typified by lower levels of relational mobility
would tend to show more attention to the surrounding social and physical context (ie, holistic …

Based on the cognitive behavioral model of pathological Internet use and the gender role
theory, this present study investigated the association between the need for distinctiveness …

Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder, is accompanied by various non-
motor symptoms including depression and anxiety, which may precede the onset of motor …

Recent theorizing in cultural psychology posits that culture develops in response to the
pressures and needs posed by physical and social environments as a way to increase a …

Good communication skills facilitate successful interpersonal relationships. However, the
specific communication skills (encoding and decoding) required for establishing friendships …

Our desire for status drives many of our decisions about what we own and consume. In
picking up on the importance of individuals' desire for status, we shed light on status …