Michael Barlev

PLOS ONE, Jul 2023 Researchers increasingly recognize that the mind and culture interact at many levels to constitute our lived experience, yet we know relatively little about the extent to which culture shapes the way people appraise their experiences and the likelihood that a given experience will be reported.

Restricted accessResearch articles Abstract How much cultural variation is explained by the physical and social ecologies people inhabit? Here, we provide an answer using nine ecological variables and 66 cultural variables (including personality traits, values and norms) drawn from the EcoCultural Dataset. We generate a range of estimates by using different statistical metrics (e.g. current levels, average levels across time, unpredictability across time) of each of the ecological variables.

Regular Article Tadeg Quillien, Corresponding Author Tadeg Quillien tadeg.quillien@gmail.com School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Correspondence should be sent to Tadeg Quillien, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK. E-mail: tadeg.quillien@gmail.com Search for more papers by this author Michael Barlev, Michael Barlev Department of Psychology, Arizona State University Search for more papers by this author Open Practices: .