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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Jinli Wu's paper is out. "The mind carries greater significance in Western White cultural contexts (i.e., a mind or mentalist focus/orientation) and that behavior carries greater significance in East Asian contexts (i.e., a behavior focus/orientation). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Why the West Minds and the East Behaves: An Integrative Review of the Cultural Evolution of Mind–Behavior Orientations - Jinli Wu, Yulia Chentsova-Dutton, 2025

One fundamental characteristic of humans is that we have both “exteriors” (i.e., behavior) and “interiors” (i.e., mental states). This distinction between the m...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Excited about this theoretical paper by Jinli Wu, accepted at JCCP. "Mind Focus in Western White Cultures, Behavior Focus in East Asian Cultures: An Integrative Review." osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A new theoretical paper on symptom heterogeneity, with Andrew Ryder. "Internalizing disorders as shape-shifters: Understanding individual and cultural heterogeneity in the presentation of symptoms" Accepted by Psych Review. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I am noticing that my students are using cognitive language (e.g., I think/know/believe) as much, replaced with emotional (I feel). I feel that these data are inconclusive. I feel that that is an interesting argument. What is this?

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So honored to have been one of Arthur Kleinman’s first students at @harvard.edu in 1984 and to be at his Last Lecture at Harvard today.

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Steven Heine @stevenheine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Students in the US are more likely to consider events being alone as "potentially risky or dangerous" to themselves that students in Canada, Turkey and Russia. Most of these events looks benign otherwise based on descriptions of what happened.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

After reading Anabasis with my teacher, thinking about perceptions of cultural contact as polluting/requiring cleansing in certain cultures. Squares with my experience of traveling as a teen and people scrutinizing my "new accent," behavior and opinions for signs of pollution.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If true, cultural differences are on the chopping block?

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

#AcademicSky I still see many students taking notes by hand Turns out, there's a benefit! See meta-analysis: Laptop users take more notes, but under-perform. Students, resist temptation to write down everything we say! Listen, think, capture the key essence link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

People are wondering why academics do not express unpopular opinions more, with security of their tenure and all. The system that protects them for job security is also the least forgiving of dissent. With low relational mobility. if you earn contempt of your colleagues, you are stuck with it.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A lot of conversations on potential harms of social media for young people. One mechanism that gets overlooked is exposure to seemingly wholesome content on mental health awareness, framed to invite young people to expect and monitor for symptoms of mental illness.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

"Stress bragging" is an interesting concept for cultural psychologists, going beyond the workplace (e.g., students, virtuous stress one experiences from engaging with the news). It is clearly perceived as something worthy of sharing, yet backfires. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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“I'm so stressed!”: The relational consequences of stress bragging

Feeling stressed is an unfortunately common experience among employees—and one with significant consequences for personal and professional well-being. Yet, in addition to trying to manage high stress...

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The most intriguing data from the new Danish study are for schizophrenia, OCD and bipolar. Stress that is uniquely triggering females to develop these disorders (that normally respond little to significant environmental differences) is a far-fetched story. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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