I'm an Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I research culture. I study how rice and wheat agriculture have given northern and southern China two very different cultures, including whether people move chairs in Starbucks. I also study how people misunderstand collectivism (people often forget the suspicion!) and how the power of money over psychology is bigger in Western cultures.
That all started in 2007, when Princeton in Asia sent me to teach high school in Guangzhou. Since then, I've lived in China for four years, most recently on a 2012-2013 Fulbright scholarship and as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.
I've researched how moving homes (residential mobility) and moving relationships (relational mobility) affects people's psychology. I was a part of the original reproducibility project. I also studied how liberal culture in the United States is more individualistic, and how making people think more analytically increases support for liberal social policies, whereas thinking holistically increases support for conservative policies.
I've worked as a freelance journalist based in Beijing, and I founded Smart Air, a social enterprise to help people in China breathe clean air without shelling out thousands of dollars for expensive purifiers. This Atlantic article explains the accidental journey pretty well.
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That all started in 2007, when Princeton in Asia sent me to teach high school in Guangzhou. Since then, I've lived in China for four years, most recently on a 2012-2013 Fulbright scholarship and as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow.
I've researched how moving homes (residential mobility) and moving relationships (relational mobility) affects people's psychology. I was a part of the original reproducibility project. I also studied how liberal culture in the United States is more individualistic, and how making people think more analytically increases support for liberal social policies, whereas thinking holistically increases support for conservative policies.
I've worked as a freelance journalist based in Beijing, and I founded Smart Air, a social enterprise to help people in China breathe clean air without shelling out thousands of dollars for expensive purifiers. This Atlantic article explains the accidental journey pretty well.
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