Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures.

M Atari, J Haidt, J Graham, S Koleva… - Journal of Personality …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Moral foundations theory has been a generative framework in moral psychology in the last 2
decades. Here, we revisit the theory and develop a new measurement tool, the Moral …

Paradox of diversity in the collective brain

R Schimmelpfennig, L Razek… - … of The Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human societies are collective brains. People within every society have cultural brains—
brains that have evolved to selectively seek out adaptive knowledge and socially transmit …

Cross-national analyses require additional controls to account for the non-independence of nations

S Claessens, T Kyritsis, QD Atkinson - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Cross-national analyses test hypotheses about the drivers of variation in national outcomes.
However, since nations are connected in various ways, such as via spatial proximity and …

Cultural evolution of genetic heritability

R Uchiyama, R Spicer… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …

Cultural evolutionary behavioural science in public policy

R Schimmelpfennig, M Muthukrishna - Behavioural Public Policy, 2023 - cambridge.org
Interventions are to the social sciences what inventions are to the physical sciences–an
application of science as technology. Behavioural science has emerged as a powerful toolkit …

Economic growth, gender inequality, openness of trade, and female labour force participation: A nonlinear ARDL approach

R Akhtar, MM Masud, N Jafrin… - Economic Change and …, 2023 - Springer
This study examines the dynamic association between economic growth, gender inequality,
trade openness, and labour force participation in Malaysia over a 40-year timeframe from …

The moderating role of culture in the generalizability of psychological phenomena

R Schimmelpfennig, R Spicer… - … in Methods and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the large sample size and number of sites, ML2's samples were culturally relatively
homogeneous. Multisite projects have much improved samples compared with most …

Worldwide divergence of values

JC Jackson, D Medvedev - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Social scientists have long debated the nature of cultural change in a modernizing and
globalizing world. Some scholars predicted that national cultures would converge by …

Altruistic works, religion, and corruption: Kiais' leadership to shape anti-corruption values in pesantren

A Karim, O Fathurrohman, Muhammadun… - Cogent Social …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the several roles of kiai s (leaders) in pesantren, such as the Kiai s'
behaviors in instilling anti-corruption teachings, Kiai s' words containing anti-corruption …

The non-independence of nations and why it matters

S Claessens, Q Atkinson - 2022 - osf.io
Cross-national analyses test hypotheses about the drivers of global variation in national
outcomes. However, since nations are connected in various ways, such as via spatial …