Academic Publications

Talhelm, T., & English, A. S. (2020). Historically rice-farming societies have tighter social norms in China and worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Open access)

Liu, S., Morris, M. W., Talhelm, T., & Yang, Q. (2019). Ingroup vigilance in collectivistic culture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Click here for PDF.) 

Talhelm, T. (2019). Emerging evidence of cultural differences linked to rice versus wheat agriculture. Current Opinion in Psychology. (Click here for PDF)

Talhelm, T., & Oishi, S. (2019). Culture and Ecology. In D. Cohen & S. Kitayama (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Psychology. Guilford Press. (Click here for PDF.) 

Talhelm, T., Zhang, X., & Oishi, S. (2018). Moving chairs in Starbucks: Observational studies find rice-wheat cultural differences. Science Advances, 4, eaap8469. (Open access)

Thomson, R., Yuki, M., Talhelm, T., Schug, J., Kito, M., Ayanian, A. H., … Visserman, M. L. (2018). Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dong, X., Talhelm, T., & Ren, X. (2018). Teens in rice county are more interdependent and think more holistically than nearby wheat county. Social Psychological and Personality Science. (Click for PDF.)

Talhelm, T., Oishi, S., & Zhang, X. (2018). Who smiles while alone? Rates of  smiling lower in China than US. Emotion. (PDF)

Talhelm, T., & Oishi, S. (2018). How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China. In A. K. Uskul & S. Oishi (Eds.), Socioeconomic Environment and Human Psychology (pp. 53–76). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. (Click here for PDF.) 

Talhelm, T. (2018). Hong Kong liberals are WEIRD: Analytic thought increases support for liberal policies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(5), 717-728. (Click here for PDF.)

Talhelm, T., Zhang, X., Oishi, S., Chen, S., Duan, D., Lan, X., & Kitayama, S. (2014). Discovery of large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice vs. wheat agriculture. Science, 344(6184), 603-608.
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Talhelm, T., Haidt, J., Oishi, S., Zhang, X., Miao, F. F., & Chen, S. (2015). Liberals think more analytically (more “WEIRD”) than conservatives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(2) 250–267. (Click here for PDF.)

Oishi, S., Talhelm, T., Lee, M., Komiya, A., & Satoshi, A. (2015). Residential mobility and low-commitment groups. Archives of Scientific Psychology, 3, 54-61. (Click here for PDF.)

Talhelm, T., & Oishi, S. (2013). Residential mobility affects self-concept, group support, and happiness of individuals and communities. In J. Rentfrow (Ed.) Geographical psychology: Exploring the interaction of environment and behavior (pp. 219-239). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. (Click here for PDF.)
   
Oishi, S., & Talhelm, T. (2012). Residential mobility: What psychological research reveals. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21(6), 425-430.

Oishi, S., Talhelm, T., & Lee, M. (2015). Personality and geography: Introverts prefer mountains. Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 55-68. (PDF)

Oishi, S., Kesebir, S., Miao, F. F., Talhelm, T., Endo, Y., Uchida, Y. Shibanai, Y., & Norasakkunkit, V. (2013). Residential mobility increases motivation to expand  social networks: But why? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(2), 217-223.

Open Science Collaboration. (2013). The Reproducibility Project: A model of large-scale collaboration for empirical research on reproducibility. In V. Stodden, F. Leisch, & R. Peng (Eds.), Implementing Reproducible Computational Research (A Volume in The R Series, pp. 299-323). New York, NY: Taylor & Francis.

Open Science Collaboration. (2012). An open, large-scale, collaborative effort to estimate the reproducibility of psychological science. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7, 652-655.  

Journalistic Publications

Karakul Lake, Xinjiang

Author's corner: A look back at Bo Yang's The Ugly Chinaman. Far Eastern Economic Review, December 7, 2008.

Fashionable Mandarin: New Mandarin propaganda efforts push Mandarin as chic. Urbane, September, 2008.

H1N1 gets treatment from TCM. China Daily, June 24, 2009.

New forms of old revolutions: A softened Cultural Revolution lives on in modern China. Far Eastern Economic Review, November 7, 2008.

 Superheroes and anti-theft devices: What the psychology of barred windows can teach us about China and America's education systems. Perspectives: Overseas Chinese Forum, 9(3).

China's Confucian resurgence and KTV. City Weekend, March 23, 2009.

Finding China's Jews. City Weekend, June 15, 2009.

Beijing's Summer of Smog. City Weekend, July 6, 2009.

Minimum Wage Increase Jacks Up Beijing Prices. City Weekend, August 16, 2010.

2.6 billion eyeballs, lessons from the street. China Daily, December 9, 2010.

Chinese net sheriffs rise to enforce a new justice from the Internet jungle. Urbane, November, 2008.

Coal Town: Beijing cleans itself of coal heaters. City Weekend, November 6, 2008.

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Presentations

Chaired Symposium: The Budding Collectivism Revolution. (2018, March). Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Atlanta, GA.
 
Talhelm, T., Chopik, W., Axt, J., Ren, X., Oishi, S., & Haidt, J. (2017, November). The way we think about collectivism is wrong. Stanford University Department of Psychology, Stanford, CA.
 
Talhelm, T., Xuemin, X., Oishi, S., Hitokoto, H., English, A. S., & Dong, X. (2017, November). The Rice Theory of Culture. Michigan State University East Asian Studies Annual Lecture, East Lansing, MI.
 
Talhelm, T., Hitokoto, H., English, A. S., & Dong, X. (2017, October). The Rice Theory from kindergarten to undergrad. University of Chicago East Asian Studies Department, Chicago, IL.
 
Talhelm, T., Chopik, W., Axt, J., Ren, X., Oishi, S., & Haidt, J. (2017, September). The way we think about collectivism is wrong. Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China.
 
Talhelm, T., Xuemin, X., Oishi, S., Hitokoto, H., English, A. S., & Dong, X. (2017, May). Rice, the year GDP broke, and the collectivism revolution. University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL.
 
Talhelm, T., Hitokoto, H., English, A. S., & Dong, X. (2017, May). The Rice Theory from kindergarten to undergrad. Harvard University Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Boston, MA.
 
Talhelm, T., Hitokoto, H., English, A. S., & Dong, X. (2017, May). The Rice Theory of Culture: Japan, wheat enculturation, and rice islands. Society for Experimental Social Psychology, Boston, MA.
 
Chaired Symposium: New Perspectives on Age Old Questions. (2017, March). International Convention of Psychological Science, Vienna, Austria.
 
Talhelm, T., Haidt, J., Oishi, S., Zhang, X., Miao, F. F., Chen, S. (2017, February). Liberals are WEIRD: Evidence that liberals think as if they were from a different culture. Presentation at the University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany.
 
Talhelm, T., Oishi, S., Zhang, X. Dong, X., Kitayama, S. (2016, December). The rice theory of culture: New findings from Ningxia. Presentation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
 
Talhelm, T., & Oishi, S. (2016, September). Explanations Across Cultures. Presentation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, China. 

Chaired Symposium: Ecological Thinking: New Advances in Ecological Psychology (2016, May). Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
 
Talhelm, T. (2016, February). Why the way we think of collectivism is wrong. Presentation at University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL.
 
Talhelm, T. (2015, September). Evidence that analytic thinkers use more nouns. Presentation at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
 
Talhelm, T., Oishi, S., & Khanna, D. (2015, March). The Rice Theory of Culture: New Findings from India. Presentation at International Convention of Psychological Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Talhelm, T., Zhang, X., Oishi, S., Chen, S., Duan, D., Lan, X., & Kitayama, S. (2013). The Rice Theory of Culture. International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Talhelm, T., Zhang, X., Oishi, S., Chen, S., Duan, D., Lan, X., & Kitayama, S. (2013). The Rice Theory of Culture. Student Choice Colloquium, University of Virginia.

Talhelm, T., Miao, F., & Oishi, S. (2011). Liberals see the world in pieces: Evidence for a link between politics and thought. Presentation at Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio, Texas.