Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice …
2014年5月9日 · This study shows that China’s wheat and rice regions have different cultures. China’s rice regions have several markers of East Asian culture: more holistic thought, more interdependent self-construals, and lower divorce rates.
What happened when China randomly assigned people to farm rice or wheat
2024年4月23日 · The rice theory argues that the irrigation and high labor demands of rice farming gave southern China a more interdependent culture than the wheat-farming north. But how can we test whether rice really shapes culture?
Wheat vs. Rice: How China's Culinary Divide Shapes Personality
2014年5月9日 · China's north eats noodles, while the south eats rice—and according to new research, when it comes to personality, that difference has meant everything.
Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice …
2023年4月14日 · We tested 1162 Han Chinese participants in six sites and found that rice-growing southern China is more interdependent and holistic-thinking than the wheat-growing north.
Large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice …
2014年5月9日 · However, this study shows that there are major psychological differences within China. We propose that a history of farming rice makes cultures more interdependent, whereas farming wheat makes cultures more independent, and ….
What You Farm Affects Your Thinking, Study Says
2014年5月8日 · Chinese people in rice-growing areas think differently than those in wheat-farming areas, says a new study.
Emerging evidence of cultural differences linked to rice versus wheat …
2019年7月15日 · Roughly four billion people live in cultures with a legacy of rice farm. Recent studies find that rice cultures are more interdependent than herding cultures and wheat-farming cultures. In China, people from rice-farming areas think more holistically and show less implicit individualism than people from wheat-farming areas.
'Rice theory' explains north-south China cultural differences
2014年5月8日 · A new cultural psychology study has found that psychological differences between the people of northern and southern China mirror the differences between community-oriented East Asia and the more...
(PDF) Crossing the rice-wheat border: Not all intra ... - ResearchGate
2020年8月21日 · crossing between the rice and wheat farming regions in China—south and north China, respectively. New evidence suggests wheat-farming agriculture fosters a coping strategy of
in six sites and found that rice-growing southern China is more interdependent and holistic-thinking than the wheat-growing north. To control for confounds like climate, we tested people from neighboring counties along the rice-wheat border and found differences that were just as large. We also find that modernization and pathogen