Useful Science

Cultural Change

Episode Summary

This week we're talking about cultural change.

Episode Notes

https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/54

This week we're talking about cultural change.

Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.

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Show Notes

• Global Increases in Individualism
• Social Structure, Infectious Diseases, Disasters, Secularism, and Cultural Change in America
• Tuning in to psychological change: Linguistic markers of psychological traits and emotions over time in popular U.S. song lyrics.
• Temporal Changes in Individualism and Their Ramification in Japan: Rising Individualism and Conflicts with Persisting Collectivism
• The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation
• Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture
• Status Quo Bias in Decision Making