Thomas Talhelm

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Talhelm is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Talhelm has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Social Psychology, 27 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 18 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Thomas Talhelm's work include Cultural Differences and Values (32 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (15 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (13 papers). Thomas Talhelm is often cited by papers focused on Cultural Differences and Values (32 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (15 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (13 papers). Thomas Talhelm collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Thomas Talhelm's co-authors include Shigehiro Oishi, Cheng Shi-min, Shinobu Kitayama, Xianfei Zhang, Dingna Duan, Xuezhao Lan, Alexander Scott English, Xuemin Zhang, Felicity F. Miao and Qian Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Talhelm

54 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture

2014 805 citations Thomas Talhelm, Xianfei Zhang et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Talhelm United States	16	870	828	311	256	224	58	1.8k
Joshua Conrad Jackson United States	23	919 1.1×	818 1.0×	495 1.6×	120 0.5×	281 1.3×	56	2.2k
Stephen Reysen United States	20	685 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	172 0.6×	107 0.4×	162 0.7×	105	1.9k
Kürşad Demirutku Türkiye	8	945 1.1×	786 0.9×	226 0.7×	86 0.3×	104 0.5×	14	1.8k
Kim Peters Australia	28	925 1.1×	1.4k 1.7×	175 0.6×	81 0.3×	334 1.5×	71	3.0k
Özlem Dirilen‐Gümüş Türkiye	7	984 1.1×	825 1.0×	252 0.8×	76 0.3×	103 0.5×	10	1.8k
David Richter Germany	22	555 0.6×	661 0.8×	158 0.5×	162 0.6×	353 1.6×	86	2.2k
Selin Kesebir United States	18	1.1k 1.3×	723 0.9×	143 0.5×	71 0.3×	269 1.2×	35	1.9k
Stefano Pagliaro Italy	26	788 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	511 1.6×	83 0.3×	140 0.6×	98	2.1k
Xuezhao Lan China	6	464 0.5×	396 0.5×	190 0.6×	156 0.6×	220 1.0×	7	1.5k
Daniel M. Stancato United States	5	536 0.6×	665 0.8×	236 0.8×	52 0.2×	137 0.6×	8	1.4k

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English, Alexander Scott, Thomas Talhelm, Liuqing Wei, et al.. (2025). Moving to wheat‐farming regions increases analytic thought, but moving to cities does not: A three‐wave longitudinal study. British Journal of Psychology. 117(1). 378–405.

English, Alexander Scott, et al.. (2024). Beyond perceived risk: COVID-19 vaccination more strongly linked to individual risk perception in wheat areas than rice areas. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. 103. 102075–102075.

Talhelm, Thomas, et al.. (2024). The motivating effect of monetary over psychological incentives is stronger in WEIRD cultures. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(3). 456–470. 16 indexed citations

English, Alexander Scott, et al.. (2023). Rice‐farming areas report more anxiety across two years of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 17(9). 6 indexed citations

Liu, Su, et al.. (2023). COVID‐19 lockdown anxiety harms newcomers' job satisfaction: A cross‐lagged panel analysis during snap lockdowns in China. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 17(8). 1 indexed citations

English, Alexander Scott, et al.. (2023). COVID‐19 non‐death loss and acceptance coping: A 3‐wave cross‐lagged panel analysis. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 17(12). 4 indexed citations

English, Alexander Scott, et al.. (2023). Cultural traits or social norms? Both responsibilism and norms linked to accepting COVID‐19 vaccine. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 17(8). 5 indexed citations

Wei, Liuqing, Alexander Scott English, Thomas Talhelm, et al.. (2023). People in Tight Cultures and Tight Situations Wear Masks More: Evidence From Three Large-Scale Studies in China. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 51(7). 1121–1138. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Cheol-Sung, et al.. (2023). People in Historically Rice-Farming Areas are Less Happy and Socially Compare More than People in Wheat-Farming Areas. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

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English, Alexander Scott, et al.. (2022). Historical rice farming explains faster mask use during early days of China's COVID-19 outbreak. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 100034–100034. 25 indexed citations

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Lee, Cheol-Sung, et al.. (2022). People in historically rice-farming areas are less happy and socially compare more than people in wheat-farming areas.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 124(5). 935–957. 8 indexed citations

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Talhelm, Thomas, Cheol-Sung Lee, Alexander Scott English, & Shuang Wang. (2022). How Rice Fights Pandemics: Nature–Crop–Human Interactions Shaped COVID-19 Outcomes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 49(11). 1567–1586. 20 indexed citations

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Talhelm, Thomas, et al.. (2022). People from the U.S. and China think about their personal and collective future differently. Memory & Cognition. 51(1). 87–100. 17 indexed citations

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Wu, Kaidi & Thomas Talhelm. (2021). Hide a Dagger Behind a Smile: A Review of How Collectivistic Cultures Compete More Than Individualistic Cultures. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haotian, Thomas Talhelm, Qian Yang, & Chao Hu. (2021). High‐status people are more individualistic and analytic‐thinking in the west and wheat‐farming areas, but not rice‐farming areas. European Journal of Social Psychology. 51(6). 878–895. 14 indexed citations

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Talhelm, Thomas & Alexander Scott English. (2020). Historically rice-farming societies have tighter social norms in China and worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 19816–19824. 116 indexed citations

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Talhelm, Thomas. (2019). Why Your Understanding of Collectivism Is Probably Wrong. APS observer. 32(9). 3 indexed citations

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Talhelm, Thomas & Shigehiro Oishi. (2018). How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China. Oxford University Press eBooks. 31 indexed citations

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Talhelm, Thomas, Xianfei Zhang, Shigehiro Oishi, et al.. (2014). Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture. Science. 344(6184). 603–608. 805 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Yaqin, Xuemin Zhang, Yan Song, et al.. (2011). Gender differences in visual reflexive attention shifting: Evidence from an ERP study. Brain Research. 1401. 59–65. 46 indexed citations

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