Associate Professor of Behavioral Science at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Papers available at: https://t.co/axIOUVcUAN
We gave ~7,000 people a simple work task in two Western, individualistic cultures (US, UK) and three more collectivistic cultures (China, South Africa, Mexico). The task was like a captcha. 
Here's the setup. Researchers tracked how accurate stock analysts in China were at predicting companies' earnings per share from 2007 to 2023. 
About 30 years ago, an influential study came out finding that people in Hong Kong are "bicultural." researchgate.net/publication/31…
How do psychologists test whether people are bicultural? The method goes back to the 90s. It’s simple. Show people pictures that represent cultures, like China... 
How do psychologists test whether people are bicultural? The method goes back to the 90s. It’s simple. Show people pictures that represent cultures, like China... 
We had an *awesome* dataset of 29 million posts from Weibo (China’s Twitter). That’s over 800,000 users! 
A truism in psychology these days is that relationships are the key to happiness. 
Risk perception is a basic model for health decisions. It's simple: If people feel at risk, they'll do things like wear a mask or get vaccinated. 💉 
The index is based on military enlistment, gun attitudes, gun policy, gender hierarchy, and patriarchal attitudes, such as "Men are naturally better leaders than women," and "The father should be the boss in the house." 
It was the 1950s. WWII and China's civil war had ended. The government wanted to put former soldiers to work and boost food production. So they started building collective state farms. 
It all started in a meeting room at U Chicago. I listened to my colleague Devin Pope present his mega study. He asked **10,000** people on MTurk to push the "A" and "B" buttons as many times as they could for 10 minutes. academic.oup.com/restud/article…
Then there's Yazd. Yazd is bone dry. 
Openness to experience was the opposite, at least in the US. Open-minded regions got hit harder at first. Could be all because openness entails more social mixing, more travel. 
...but ALL of wealthy East Asia is less happy than it "should be" based on its wealth. Why? 
With a research team, we observed 1,300 people in seven cities in a radius around Wuhan. 
Why? Rice farmers shared labor and faced commons problems with shared irrigation networks. Strong social norms helped farmers coordinate labor, water, repairing channels. 