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Jump starting a new field: Historical Psychology. Pop the clutch... @slingerland20 @mmuthukrishna @RachelASpicer https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-082820-111436
Psychology must take history seriously and team up with historians and other experts. Things that occurred centuries ago influence how we think, reason and perceive now.
Case in point: religions shape psychology directly. @martinlangcz @GuessRita @aiyanakoka @JeanetBentzen
And, religions shape how we think indirectly via how their beliefs and customs alter the structure of families and relational networks @JF_Schulz
Economic history shapes the norms that influence gender differences and contemporary inequality @AnkeBecker_ @DrNathanNunn
The Big Five or the Big Two? Historical processes shape the configuration of personalities. "Personality psychology" is a branch of cultural and evolutionary psychology: @StevenHeine4 @MGurven @SpeciesTypical
Ecology shapes institutions, which shapes relational mobility, which in turn shapes how people think, and there's feedback. @ThomasTalhelm @Graham_Noblit @nisbett1
How much does a population support democracy? History matters @DrNathanNunn @Graham_Noblit @JeanetBentzen
It's crucial to create new data sources that integrate history, language, anthropology and psychology (among other sources) @Peter_Turchin @blasi_lang Here are a few to keep your eye on. @PatrickESavage @mnvrsngh @_MaxWinkler_
Devising new ways to track psychological variation across time and cultural history... How dualistic were the elite in ancient China? Put a cultural evolutionist (trained in psychology) together with a sinologist you get this: It depends when... @slingerland20
