Yulia Chentsova

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...

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).

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funny!!

you = MCPS

A parent of a magnet student here: you may have valuable ideas, but have done an exceptionally poor job communicating with the stakeholders.

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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."
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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...

Or take the science path, but be primed to see all critical or ambiguous feedback as deeply biased and hurtful.

ooh, that looks great, looking forward

But a perfectly normal reaction to an anonymous stranger that cannot admit being mistaken?

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Once again, you are mistaken. My public appearances are limited to my areas of expertise. I have never appeared on a broadcast talking about this.

I never appeared on CBS, let alone talking about topics outside of my areas of expertise. Check your facts before ranting?

I personally think that the issue is that emotional language is used to make the costs of disagreement or expressing a judgment minimal. We do not disagree with feelings, so making everything a feeling is protective.

Interesting, although their language is very different in writing, where they routinely use expressions that few psychologists use, implying access to truth.

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?

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.

Awww, I did not realize this connection was there, amazing. Of course, impossible to exaggerate his influence on culture and emotion researchers like myself. We all owe so much to him.

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? 🧵

How exciting, Steve, I was hoping there would be a paper about this.

They closed their own program for U refugees down last October, did they not? Just talked to a friend who worked with migrants and is helping those that entered prior to October get their docs.

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Amazing, thank you!

This may be due in part to low develomental exposure to risk, the same students remember doing potentially risky thinks at later ages in their childhoods.

In the US, encounters with other people, often with very limited contact (e.g., passersby that were perceived to be dangerous without actually displaying aggressive behavior) and descriptions of being alone (e.g., walking home alone, often after dark) were common.

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.

I know your depression paper well, it is always a favorite in my culture and psychopathology seminar. Will read up on others. Other than sexual orientation, have you found any other phenomena that you thought may spread across the network but failed to do so?

Thank you

Thank you for your response. I am thinking about this in culture and mental health area (e.g., which MH symptoms are contagious and which are not/less so). It is clear that virality/extent of cultural shaping differs, but no clear model explains this.

So what is the model on what is contagious, generally speaking?