Psychological Perspectives on Culture Change

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Introduction

• The Psychology of Cultural Change: Introduction to the Special Issue
  Michael E. W. Varnum and Igor Grossmann

The What: Documenting Cultural Changes

• The New Science of Religious Change
  Joshua Conrad Jackson, Nava Caluori, Kurt Gray, and Michele Gelfand
• Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes II. Long-Term Change and Stability, Regardless of Group Membership
  Tessa E. S. Charlesworth and Mahzarin R. Banaji
• Historical Change in Midlife Health, Well-Being, and Despair: Cross-Cultural and Socioeconomic Comparisons
  Frank J. Infurna, Omar E. Staben, Margie E. Lachman, and Denis Gerstorf
• Individualism With Chinese Characteristics? Discerning Cultural Shifts in China Using 50 Years of Printed Texts
  Takeshi Hamamura, Zhicong Chen, Christian S. Chan, Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, and Tetsuro Kobayashi
• The Cultural Dynamics of Declining Residential Mobility
  Nicholas Buttrick and Shigehiro Oishi
• Global Trends in Cross-Cultural Endorsement of Social Mobility: Evidence From 167 Countries
  Meanne Chan, Felix Cheung, Charlie Lau, and Ting Fung Ma

The Why: Testing Hypotheses About the Causes of Cultural Changes

• Increasing Population Densities Predict Decreasing Fertility Rates Over Time: A 174-Nation Investigation
  Amanda Rotella, Michael E. W. Varnum, Oliver Sng, and Igor Grossmann
• Local Housing Market Dynamics Predict Rapid Shifts in Cultural Openness: A 9-Year Study Across 199 Cities
  Friedrich M. Götz, Tobias Ebert, Samuel D. Gosling, Martin Obschonka, Jeff Potter, and P. Jason Rentfrow
• Cultural Change Through Niche Construction: A Multilevel Approach to Investigate the Interplay Between Cultural Change and Infectious Disease
  Kodai Kusano and Markus Kemmelmeier
• Ecological Dimensions Explain the Past but Do Not Predict Future Changes in Trust
  Olga Stavrova, Anthony M. Evans, and Mark J. Brandt
• A Machine Learning Model of Cultural Change: Role of Prosociality, Political Attitudes, and Protestant Work Ethic
  Abhishek Sheetal and Krishna Savani

The How: Deriving Broad Principles and Mechanisms by Which Change Occurs

• The Cultural Dynamics of Concept Creep
  Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova, Michael Zyphur, and Yoshihisa Kashima
• Modeling Cultural Change: Computational Models of Interpersonal Influence Dynamics Can Yield New Insights About How Cultures Change, Which Cultures Change More Rapidly Than Others, and Why
  Mark Schaller and Michael Muthukrishna
• Cultural Drift, Indirect Minority Influence, Network Structure and Their Impacts on Cultural Change and Diversity
  Jiin Jung, Aaron Bramson, William D. Crano, Scott E. Page, and John H. Miller
• Integrating Evolutionary Game Theory and Cross-Cultural Psychology to Understand Cultural Dynamics
  Xinyue Pan, Michele Gelfand, and Dana Nau
• Quantifying the Selective Forgetting and Integration of Ideas in Science and Technology
  Cristian Candia and Brian Uzzi

Obituaries

• Martha Tamara Shuch Mednick (1929–2020)
  Gwendolyn Keita and Veronica Thomas
• James Sydney Jackson (1944–2020)
  M. Belinda Tucker