Cultural psychology—the research field focusing on the mutual constitution of culture and
the mind—has made great strides by documenting robust cultural variations in how people …

Research in cultural psychology over the last three decades has revealed the profound
influence of culture on cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes shaping individuals …

Cultural psychologists often treat binary contrasts of West versus East, individualism versus
collectivism, and independent versus interdependent self-construal as interchangeable, thus …

The pathogen stress hypothesis posits that pathogen-related threats influence regional and
individual differences in collectivism since behavioral practices associated with collectivism …

Regional differences in personality are associated with a range of consequential outcomes.
But which factors are responsible for these differences? Frontier settlement theory suggests …

Culture and personality are two central topics in psychology. Individuals are culturally
influenced influencers of culture, yet the research linking culture and personality has been …

Reputation is a fundamental feature of human sociality as it sustains cooperative
relationships among unrelated individuals. Research from various disciplines provides …

Highlights•Historical rice farming linked to interdependent culture.•Differences tested in
China and Japan, as well as in worldwide comparison.•There is evidence for differences …

The rice theory of culture is the idea that rice farming societies developed into more
interdependent, tight cultures in response to the demands of the plant. Farming in general is …

Highlights•Socio-ecological environments construct a macro culture, that is shared in a
community beyond individuals.•Using multilevel analyses, we investigated how …