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5242 ISR
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Phone: 734-936-2137
 Current research focuses on cultural variations in various psychological processes such as self, cognition, emotion, and motivation. In one line of work, he has found that cultural differences in cognition are derived in part from attention, namely, what people "notice" in the first place and, moreover, that the culture-contingent attentional biases are acquired fairly early in socialization. In another line of work, he studies the nature of happiness and wellbeing across different cultures. In these and other lines of work, he has examined both macroscopic differences and similarities across broadly defined cultural groups (e.g., East and West) and more specific regional and subgroup differences. The goal is to identify specific historical forces such as economically motivated voluntary settlement and religious movements that have had formative influences on the contemporary cultures.
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