Academic Publications

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.

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

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. (Link)
   
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. (Free 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

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.

Presentations

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. Presentation at Microsoft Campus, Beijing, China.

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.

Talhelm, T. & Schwarz, N. (2007). Perceptual Fluency and the Status-Quo Bias in Moral Decision-Making. Senior Research Symposium. Presentation at University of Michigan UROP Spring Research Symposium.

Miyamoto, Y., Talhelm, T., & Nisbett, R. E. (2006). A Meta-Analytic Review of Cultural Differences in Cognitive Processes. Poster presentation at Conference of Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

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