Selected Bibliography for Thomas Talhelm

Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

Published Works

"Insights into the Accuracy of Social Scientists’ Forecasts of Societal Change." Igor Grossmann, Amanda Rotella, Cendri A. Hutcherson, Konstantyn Sharpinskyi, Michael E. W. Varnum, Sebastian Achter, Mandeep K. Dhami, Xinqi Evie Guo, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, David R. Mandel, Louis Raes, Louis Tay, Aymeric Vie, Lisa Wagner, Matus Adamkovic, Arash Arami, Patrícia Arriaga, Kasun Bandara, Gabriel Baník, František Bartoš, Ernest Baskin, Christoph Bergmeir, Michał Białek, Caroline K. Børsting, Dillon T. Browne, Eugene M. Caruso, Rong Chen, Bin-Tzong Chie, William J. Chopik, Robert N. Collins, Chin Wen Cong, Lucian G. Conway, Matthew Davis, Martin V. Day, Nathan A. Dhaliwal, Justin D. Durham, Martyna Dziekan, Christian T. Elbaek, Eric Shuman, Marharyta Fabrykant, Mustafa Firat, Geoffrey T. Fong, Jeremy A. Frimer, Jonathan M. Gallegos, Simon B. Goldberg, Anton Gollwitzer, Julia Goyal, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy, Scott D. Gronlund, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Andree Hartanto, Matthew J. Hirshberg, Matthew J. Hornsey, Piers D. L. Howe, Anoosha Izadi, Bastian Jaeger, Pavol Kačmár, Yeun Joon Kim, Ruslan Krenzler, Daniel G. Lannin, Hung-Wen Lin, Nigel Mantou Lou, Verity Y. Q. Lua, Aaron W. Lukaszewski, Albert L. Ly, Christopher R. Madan, Maximilian Maier, Nadyanna M. Majeed, David S. March, Abigail A. Marsh, Michal Misiak, Kristian Ove R. Myrseth, Jaime M. Napan, Jonathan Nicholas, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Jiaqing O, Tobias Otterbring, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Shiva Pauer, John Protzko, Quentin Raffaelli, Ivan Ropovik, Robert M. Ross, Yefim Roth, Espen Røysamb, Landon Schnabel, Astrid Schütz, Matthias Seifert, A. T. Sevincer, Garrick T. Sherman, Otto Simonsson, Ming-Chien Sung, Chung-Ching Tai, Thomas Talhelm, Bethany A. Teachman, Philip E. Tetlock, Dimitrios Thomakos, Dwight C. K. Tse, Oliver J. Twardus, Joshua M. Tybur, Lyle Ungar, Daan Vandermeulen, Leighton Vaughan Williams, Hrag A. Vosgerichian, Qi Wang, Ke Wang, Mark E. Whiting, Conny E. Wollbrant, Tao Yang, Kumar Yogeeswaran, Sangsuk Yoon, Ventura R. Alves, Jessica R. Andrews-Hanna, Paul A. Bloom, Anthony Boyles, Loo Charis, Mingyeong Choi, Sean Darling-Hammond, Z. E. Ferguson, Cheryl R. Kaiser, Simon T. Karg, Alberto López Ortega, Lori Mahoney, Melvin S. Marsh, Marcellin F. R. C. Martinie, Eli K. Michaels, Philip Millroth, Jeanean B. Naqvi, Weiting Ng, Robb B. Rutledge, Peter Slattery, Adam H. Smiley, Oliver Strijbis, Daniel Sznycer, Eli Tsukayama, Austin van Loon, Jan G. Voelkel, Margaux N. A. Wienk, Tom Wilkening and Collaborative The Forecasting; Nature Human Behaviour, 2023.

"People from the U.S. And China Think About Their Personal and Collective Future Differently." Will Deng, Alexa K. Rosenblatt, Thomas Talhelm and Adam L. Putnam; Memory & Cognition, 2023, 51(1), pp. 87-100.

"Fundamental Social Motives Measured across Forty-Two Cultures in Two Waves." Cari M. Pick, Ahra Ko, Douglas T. Kenrick, Adi Wiezel, Alexandra S. Wormley, Edmond Awad, Laith Al-Shawaf, Oumar Barry, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Eduard Brandstätter, Suzan Ceylan-Batur, Bryan K. C. Choy, Ana Carla Crispim, Julio Eduardo Cruz, Daniel David, Oana A. David, Renata Pereira Defelipe, Pinar Elmas, Agustín Espinosa, Ana Maria Fernandez, Velichko H. Fetvadjiev, Stefka Fetvadjieva, Ronald Fischer, Silvia Galdi, Oscar Javier Galindo-Caballero, Elena V. Golovina, Galina M. Golovina, Luis Gomez-Jacinto, Sylvie Graf, Igor Grossmann, Pelin Gul, Peter Halama, Takeshi Hamamura, Shihui Han, Lina S. Hansson, Hidefumi Hitokoto, Martina Hřebíčková, Darinka Ilic, Jennifer Lee Johnson, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Johannes A. Karl, Jinseok P. Kim, Michal Kohút, Julie Lasselin, Hwaryung Lee, Norman P. Li, Anthonieta Looman Mafra, Oksana Malanchuk, Simone Moran, Asuka Murata, Jinkyung Na, Serigne Abdou Lahat Ndiaye, Jiaqing O, Ike E. Onyishi, Eddieson Pasay-an, Muhammed Rizwan, Eric Roth, Sergio Salgado, Elena S. Samoylenko, Tatyana N. Savchenko, Catarina Sette, A. Timur Sevincer, Eric Skoog, Adrian Stanciu, Eunkook M. Suh, Daniel Sznycer, Thomas Talhelm, Fabian O. Ugwu, Ayse K. Uskul, Irem Uz, Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Liuqing Wei, Danilo Zambrano and Michael E. W. Varnum; Scientific Data, 2022, 9(1), pp. 499.

"Family Still Matters: Human Social Motivation across 42 Countries During a Global Pandemic." Cari M. Pick, Ahra Ko, Alexandra S. Wormley, Adi Wiezel, Douglas T. Kenrick, Laith Al-Shawaf, Oumar Barry, Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Eduard Brandstätter, Ana Carla Crispim, Julio Eduardo Cruz, Daniel David, Oana A. David, Renata Pereira Defelipe, Pinar Elmas, Agustín Espinosa, Ana Maria Fernandez, Velichko H. Fetvadjiev, Stefka Fetvadjieva, Ronald Fischer, Silvia Galdi, Oscar Javier Galindo-Caballero, Galina M. Golovina, Luis Gomez-Jacinto, Sylvie Graf, Igor Grossmann, Pelin Gul, Peter Halama, Takeshi Hamamura, Lina S. Hansson, Hidefumi Hitokoto, Martina Hřebíčková, Darinka Ilic, Jennifer Lee Johnson, Mane Kara-Yakoubian, Johannes A. Karl, Michal Kohút, Julie Lasselin, Norman P. Li, Anthonieta Looman Mafra, Oksana Malanchuk, Simone Moran, Asuka Murata, Serigne Abdou Lahat Ndiaye, Jiaqing O, Ike E. Onyishi, Eddieson Pasay-an, Muhammed Rizwan, Eric Roth, Sergio Salgado, Elena S. Samoylenko, Tatyana N. Savchenko, A. Timur Sevincer, Eric Skoog, Adrian Stanciu, Eunkook M. Suh, Daniel Sznycer, Thomas Talhelm, Fabian O. Ugwu, Ayse K. Uskul, Irem Uz, Jaroslava Varella Valentova, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Danilo Zambrano and Michael E. W. Varnum; Evolution and Human Behavior, 2022, 43(6), pp. 527-35.

"How Do Humans Group Non-Rigid Objects in Multiple object Tracking?: Evidence from Grouping by Self-Rotation." Luming Hu, Chen Zhao, Liuqing Wei, Thomas Talhelm, Chundi Wang and Xuemin Zhang; British Journal of Psychology, 2022, 113(3), pp. 653-76.

"Asian Men and Black Women Hold Weaker Race–Gender Associations: Evidence from the United States and China." Jordan R. Axt, S. Atwood, Thomas Talhelm and Eric Hehman; Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2022, pp. 19485506221127493.

"How Rice Fights Pandemics: Nature–Crop–Human Interactions Shaped COVID-19 Outcomes." Thomas Talhelm, Cheol-Sung Lee, Alexander S. English and Shuang Wang; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2022, pp. 01461672221107209.

"Historical Rice Farming Explains Faster Mask Use During Early Days of China's COVID-19 Outbreak." Alexander Scott English, Thomas Talhelm, Rongtian Tong, Xiaoyuan Li and Yan Su; Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2022, 3, pp. 100034.

"High-Status People Are More Individualistic and Analytic-Thinking in the West and Wheat-Farming Areas, but Not Rice-Farming Areas." Haotian Zhang, Thomas Talhelm, Qian Yang and Chao S. Hu; European Journal of Social Psychology, 2021, 51(6), pp. 878-95.

"Relationship between Rice Farming and Polygenic Scores Potentially Linked to Agriculture in China." Chen Zhu, Thomas Talhelm, Yingxiang Li, Gang Chen, Jiong Zhu and Jun Wang; Royal Society Open Science, 2021, 8(8), pp. 210382.

"Distinguishing the Neural Mechanism of Attentional Control and Working Memory in Feature-Based Attentive Tracking." Luming Hu, Chundi Wang, Thomas Talhelm and Xuemin Zhang; Psychophysiology, 2021, 58(2), pp. e13726.

"Holistic Thinkers Process Divided-Attention Tasks Faster: From the Global/Local Perspective." Liz Yuanxi Lee, Thomas Talhelm, Xuemin Zhang, Bin Hu and Xin Lv; Current Psychology, 2021.

"Historically Rice-Farming Societies Have Tighter Social Norms in China and Worldwide." Thomas Talhelm and Alexander S. English; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, 117(33), pp. 19816-24.

"Emerging Evidence of Cultural Differences Linked to Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture." Thomas Talhelm; Current Opinion in Psychology, 2020, 32, pp. 81-88.

"Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation." Ahra Ko, Cari M. Pick, Jung Yul Kwon, Michael Barlev, Jaimie Arona Krems, Michael E. W. Varnum, Rebecca Neel, Mark Peysha, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Eduard Brandstätter, Ana Carla Crispim, Julio Eduardo Cruz, Daniel David, Oana A. David, Renata Pereira de Felipe, Velichko H. Fetvadjiev, Ronald Fischer, Silvia Galdi, Oscar Galindo, Galina Golovina, Luis Gomez-Jacinto, Sylvie Graf, Igor Grossmann, Pelin Gul, Takeshi Hamamura, Shihui Han, Hidefumi Hitokoto, Martina Hřebíčková, Jennifer Lee Johnson, Johannes A. Karl, Oksana Malanchuk, Asuka Murata, Jinkyung Na, Jiaqing O, Muhammed Rizwan, Eric Roth, Sergio Antonio Salgado Salgado, Elena Samoylenko, Tatyana Savchenko, A. Timur Sevincer, Adrian Stanciu, Eunkook M. Suh, Thomas Talhelm, Ayse K. Uskul, Irem Uz, Danilo Zambrano and Douglas T. Kenrick; Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019, 15(1), pp. 173-201.

"Who Smiles While Alone? Rates of Smiling Lower in China Than U.S." Thomas Talhelm, Shigehiro Oishi and Xuemin Zhang; Emotion, 2019, 19, pp. 741-45.

"Ingroup Vigilance in Collectivistic Cultures." Shi S. Liu, Michael W. Morris, Thomas Talhelm and Qian Yang; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116(29), pp. 14538-46.

"Teens in Rice County Are More Interdependent and Think More Holistically Than Nearby Wheat County." Xiawei Dong, Thomas Talhelm and Xiaopeng Ren; Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2018, 10(7), pp. 966-76.

"The Effects of Colour Complexity and Similarity on Multiple Object Tracking Performance." Chundi Wang, Luming Hu, Thomas Talhelm and Xuemin Zhang; Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2018, 72(8), pp. 1903-12.

"Relational Mobility Predicts Social Behaviors in 39 Countries and Is Tied to Historical Farming and Threat." Robert Thomson, Masaki Yuki, Thomas Talhelm, Joanna Schug, Mie Kito, Arin H. Ayanian, Julia C. Becker, Maja Becker, Chi-yue Chiu, Hoon-Seok Choi, Carolina M. Ferreira, Marta Fülöp, Pelin Gul, Ana Maria Houghton-Illera, Mihkel Joasoo, Jonathan Jong, Christopher M. Kavanagh, Dmytro Khutkyy, Claudia Manzi, Urszula M. Marcinkowska, Taciano L. Milfont, Félix Neto, Timo von Oertzen, Ruthie Pliskin, Alvaro San Martin, Purnima Singh and Mariko L. Visserman; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, 115(29), pp. 7521-26.

"Hong Kong Liberals Are Weird: Analytic Thought Increases Support for Liberal Policies." Thomas Talhelm; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2018, 44(5), pp. 717-28.

"Moving Chairs in Starbucks: Observational Studies Find Rice-Wheat Cultural Differences in Daily Life in China." Thomas Talhelm, Xuemin Zhang and Shigehiro Oishi; Science Advances, 2018, 4(4), pp. eaap8469.

"How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China," Thomas Talhelm and Shigehiro Oishi, in Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology: Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives. A. K. Üskül and S. Oishi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 53–76.

"Culture and Unmerited Authorship Credit: Who Wants It and Why?" Xiaopeng Ren, Hong Su, Kewen Lu, Xiawei Dong, Zhengzheng Ouyang and Thomas Talhelm; Frontiers in Psychology, 2016, 7.

"Brain Activation of Identity Switching in Multiple Identity Tracking Task." Chuang Lyu, Siyuan Hu, Liuqing Wei, Xuemin Zhang and Thomas Talhelm; PLOS ONE, 2015, 10(12), pp. e0145489.

"Personality and Geography: Introverts Prefer Mountains." Shigehiro Oishi, Thomas Talhelm and Minha Lee; Journal of Research in Personality, 2015, 58, pp. 55-68.

The Rice Theory of Culture Thomas Talhelm; Ph.D Dissertation, University of Virginia, 2015.

"Residential Mobility and Low-Commitment Groups." Shigehiro Oishi, Thomas Talhelm, Minha Lee, Asuka Komiya and Satoshi Akutsu; Archives of Scientific Psychology, 2015, 3(1), pp. 54-61.

"Liberals Think More Analytically (More “Weird”) Than Conservatives." Thomas Talhelm, Jonathan Haidt, Shigehiro Oishi, Xuemin Zhang, Felicity F. Miao and Shimin Chen; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2015, 41(2), pp. 250-67.

"The Reproducibility Project: A Model of Large-Scale Collaboration for Empirical Research on Reproducibility," A. A. Aarts, A. Alexander, P. Attridge, S. Bahník, M. Barnett-Cowan, E. Bartmess, F. A. Bosco, B. Brown, K. Brown, J. J. Chandler, R. Clay, H. Cleary, M. Cohn, G. Costantini, J. Crusius, J. DeCoster, M. DeGaetano, R. Donohue, E. Dunn, C. Eggleston, V. Estel, F. J. Farach, S. Fiedler, J. G. Field, S. Fitneva, J. D. Foster, R. S. Frazier, E. M. Galliani, R. Giner-Sorolla, R. J. Goss, J. Graham, J. A. Grange, J. Hartshorne, T. B. Hayes, G. Hicks, D. Humphries, G. Jahn, K. Johnson, J. A. Joy-Gaba, L. Goellner, H. B. Kappes, C. K. Lai, D. Lakens, K. A. Lane, E. P. LeBel, M. Lee, K. Lemm, M. Lewis, S. C. Lin, S. Mackinnon, H. Mainard, N. Mann, M. May, M. Motyl, K. Moore, S. M. Müller, B. A. Nosek, C. Olsson, M. Perugini, M. Pitts, K. Ratliff, F. Renkewitz, A. M. Rutchick, G. Sandstrom, D. Selterman, W. Simpson, C. T. Smith, J. R. Spies, T. Talhelm, A. van't Veer and M. Vianello, in Implementing Reproducible Research. V. Stodden, F. Leisch and R. Peng, 2014, pp. 299-324.

"Residential Mobility Affects Self-Concept, Group Support, and Happiness of Individuals and Communities," Thomas Talhelm and Shigehiro Oishi, in Geographical Psychology: Exploring the Interaction of Environment and Behavior. P. J. Rentfrow, Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2014, pp. 219-39.

"Large-Scale Psychological Differences within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture." T. Talhelm, X. Zhang, S. Oishi, C. Shimin, D. Duan, X. Lan and S. Kitayama; Science, 2014, 344(6184), pp. 603-08.

"Residential Mobility Increases Motivation to Expand Social Network: But Why?" Shigehiro Oishi, Selin Kesebir, Felicity F. Miao, Thomas Talhelm, Yumi Endo, Yukiko Uchida, Yasufumi Shibanai and Vinai Norasakkunkit; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2013, 49(2), pp. 217-23.

"An Open, Large-Scale, Collaborative Effort to Estimate the Reproducibility of Psychological Science." A. Alexander, M. Barnett-Cowan, E. Bartmess, F. A. Bosco, M. Brandt, J. Carp, J. J. Chandler, R. Clay, H. Cleary, M. Cohn, G. Costantini, J. Decoster, E. Dunn, C. Eggleston, V. Estel, F. J. Farach, J. Feather, S. Fiedler, J. G. Field, J. D. Foster, M. Frank, R. S. Frazier, H. M. Fuchs, J. Galak, E. M. Galliani, S. Garcia, E. M. Giammanco, E. A. Gilbert, R. Giner-Sorolla, L. Goellner, J. X. Goh, R. Justin Goss, J. Graham, J. A. Grange, J. R. Gray, S. Gripshover, J. Hartshorne, T. B. Hayes, G. Jahn, K. Johnson, W. Johnston, J. A. Joy-Gaba, C. K. Lai, D. Lakens, K. Lane, E. P. Lebel, M. Lee, K. Lemm, S. Mackinnon, M. May, K. Moore, M. Motyl, S. M. Muller, M. Munafo, B. A. Nosek, C. Olsson, D. Paunesku, M. Perugini, M. Pitts, K. Ratliff, F. Renkewitz, A. M. Rutchick, G. Sandstrom, R. Saxe, D. Selterman, W. Simpson, C. T. Smith, J. R. Spies, N. Strohminger, T. Talhelm, A. Van‘T Veer and M. Vianello; Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012, 7(6), pp. 657-60.

"Gender Differences in Visual Reflexive Attention Shifting: Evidence from an Erp Study." Qing Feng, Yaqin Zheng, Xuemin Zhang, Yan Song, Yue-jia Luo, Yingdi Li and Thomas Talhelm; Brain Research, 2011, 1401, pp. 59-65.