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List of works by Michael E W Varnum

A Cultural Neuroscience Approach to the Biosocial Nature of the Human Brain

scientific article published on September 17, 2012

A route to well-being: intelligence versus wise reasoning

scientific article published on 06 August 2012

Aging and Wisdom

scientific article (publication date: October 2012)

Changing cultures, changing brains: A framework for integrating cultural neuroscience and cultural change research

scientific article published in 2021

Children's mu suppression is sensitive to witnessing others' social victimization

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Cosmopolitan cities: the frontier in the twenty-first century?

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Cultural Change: The How and the Why.

scientific article published in September 2017

Cultural differences are not always reducible to individual differences

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Culture and personality revisited: Behavioral profiles and within-person stability in interdependent (vs. independent) social orientation and holistic (vs. analytic) cognitive style

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Cultures differ in the ability to enhance affective neural responses

scientific article published on 15 July 2016

Distinct effects of self-construal priming on empathic neural responses in Chinese and Westerners

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Divergent life histories and other ecological adaptations: Examples of social-class differences in attention, cognition, and attunement to others

scientific article published in January 2017

Do cultures vary in self-enhancement? ERP, behavioral, and self-report evidence

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Global Increases in Individualism

scientific article published on July 2017

Higher in status, (Even) better-than-average

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How Will We React to the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life?

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More than just climate: Income inequality and sex ratio are better predictors of cross-cultural variations in aggression

scientific article published in January 2017

Reasoning about social conflicts improves into old age

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Social class affects Mu-suppression during action observation

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Social class differences in N400 indicate differences in spontaneous trait inference

scientific article published on November 14, 2011

Social norms are becoming weaker

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Social structure, infectious diseases, disasters, secularism, and cultural change in America

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Socioecological factors are linked to changes in prevalence of contempt over time

scientific article published in January 2017

The Ecology of Withdrawal. Commentary: The NEET and Hikikomori spectrum: Assessing the risks and consequences of becoming culturally marginalized

scientific article published on 23 May 2016

The Origin of Cultural Differences in Cognition: Evidence for the Social Orientation Hypothesis

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The behavioral ecology of cultural psychological variation

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

The crowded life is a slow life: Population density and life history strategy

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

The psychology of cultural change: Introduction to the special issue.

scientific article published in 2021

The wealth→life history→innovation account of the Industrial Revolution is largely inconsistent with empirical time series data

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Variations in the regulation of affective neural responses across three cultures

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

What are lay theories of social class?

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

What's in a name?: popular names are less common on frontiers

scientific article published on 31 December 2010

When "Your" reward is the same as "My" reward: self-construal priming shifts neural responses to own vs. friends' rewards

scientific article published on 31 October 2013