Thomas Talhelm
Associate Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- United States of America
Collectivism Helped During Covid - Except for This
Collectivistic cultures had fewer COVID-19 cases and deaths than individualistic cultures, but collectivism caused more cases when social ties conflicted with social distancing.
What I Learned When I Stopped Studying College Students
Many psychology studies use college student samples or crowdwork websites like Amazon's MTurk, but is it wise to build psychological theory on this small slice of humanity?
What happened when China randomly assigned people to farm rice or wheat
The rice theory argues that the irrigation and high labor demands of rice farming gave southern China a more interdependent culture than the wheat-farming north. But how can we test whether rice really shapes culture? Two state farms started in the 1950s give us a rare natural experiment.