Current research in ecological and social psychology最新文献

Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany 罗马绮年华?罗马统治解释了德国地区福利的差异

Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100214

Martin Obschonka , Fabian Wahl , Michael Fritsch , Michael Wyrwich , P. Jason Rentfrow , Jeff Potter , Samuel D. Gosling

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Editorial: Introduction to the special issue on globalizing psychological science to include in the Middle East and Africa 社论：关于心理科学全球化的特刊导言，包括在中东和非洲

Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2024.100208

S. Arzu Wasti , Othman Alkhadher , Moustapha Achoui , Michele J. Gelfand

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Rugged terrain and rigid hierarchy 地形崎岖，等级森严

Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100220

Gen Tsudaka , Margaux N.A. Wienk , Jana B. Berkessel , Cynthia Boo

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Cultural logics and individualism-collectivism: a conceptualization of the two frameworks from a cultural dynamical perspective 文化逻辑学与个人主义-集体主义：文化动力学视角下对这两个框架的概念化

Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100232

Yoshihisa Kashima, Said Shafa, Khandis Blake

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The emotional depth of flood experience: the role of positive emotions in shaping perceptions and action on climate change 洪水经历的情感深度：积极情绪在塑造对气候变化的看法和行动中的作用

Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100221

Alexa Spence , Charles Ogunbode , Christina Demski , Stuart Capstick

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Differential effects of honor ideology on flu vaccine uptake in the United States and Turkey 荣誉意识形态对美国和土耳其流感疫苗接种率的不同影响

Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100219

Stephen Foster , Pelin Gül

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The historical psychology of romantic love in Persia in the very long run (900 - 1920) 波斯长期浪漫爱情的历史心理（900 - 1920）

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Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100233

Hossein Samani , Mohammad Parsanasab , Nicolas Baumard

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Effects of start vs. end temporal landmarks on self-dissimilarity and goal motivation 开始和结束时间标记对自我差异和目标动机的影响

Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100215

Yuta Chishima , Masato Nagamine

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Historical migration patterns and the evolution of culture 历史迁移模式与文化演变

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Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100243

Paula M. Niedenthal, Sophie Wohltjen

{"title":"Historical migration patterns and the evolution of culture","authors":"Paula M. Niedenthal, Sophie Wohltjen","doi":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100243","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultures change, but new cultural systems and practices also emerge over history. The socio-ecological factors that exert pressure on human values and practices to evolve in dynamic ways are numerous. We examine the evolution of culture due to conditions created by long-history migration. The populations of today’s countries and other geographic regions have descended from an uneven influx of people from different cultural and linguistic traditions. We suggest that the challenges of social living in contexts of historic intergroup mingling over long timescales, which include social unpredictability, linguistic variability, and a collision of conflicting social norms, constitute contexts that encourage cultural evolution. We show that societies of high ancestral diversity are marked by social unpredictability in that they involve greater relational mobility and normative looseness than societies of low ancestral diversity. In these contexts, outgroup attitudes are somewhat more sanguine, and perhaps consequently, people are more open to new experiences and relationships. To manage this social complexity, we show that cultures of emotion that emerge in ancestrally diverse societies involve 1) emotional expressiveness and 2) expressive accuracy, 3) the frequent use of smiles potentially to communicate preferences and establish trust, and 4) regular exercise of the balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems to support a high level of non-verbal communication and informational exchange. We also present evidence to motivate the hypothesis that languages evolve in predictable ways in ancestrally diverse societies. Specifically, features of language that facilitate language acquisition by adult learners, such as compressibility, should become more common in ancestrally diverse contexts. We end by raising questions about the time course for the of cultural evolution of emotion practices and the effects of power dynamics between interacting groups on the content of new cultural practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":72748,"journal":{"name":"Current research in ecological and social psychology","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100243"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145219118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Unseen consequences: the effect of activity-based work environments on work recovery 看不见的后果：基于活动的工作环境对工作恢复的影响

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Current research in ecological and social psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100239

Halldor Valgeirsson , Freyr Halldorsson , Kari Kristinsson

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