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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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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 · Aug 22

funny!!

Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Jul 31

you = MCPS

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Jul 31

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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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Jun 30

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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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Jun 7

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 · May 16

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

Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 13

ooh, that looks great, looking forward

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 12

🤷‍♀️

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 12

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.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 12

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

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 4

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.

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 2

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

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · May 1

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 · Apr 29

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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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Apr 29

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.

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Steven Heine @stevenheine.bsky.social · Mar 14

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 · Mar 14

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

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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Mar 6

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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Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Mar 4

раз Труляля и Траляля решили вздуть друг дружку

Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Mar 4

Amazing, thank you!

Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Mar 4

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.

Yulia Chentsova @yuliacd.bsky.social · Mar 4

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.