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DESCRIPTION:Does medieval Catholicism explain differences between cultures 
 to this day? Could our inclination to pay a parking ticket or to donate blo
 od have to do with the historical interaction of the medieval church and ki
 nship structures during the Middle Ages? These questions were addressed by 
 a team of researchers from George Mason University and Harvard University i
 n their study\, “The Church\, intensive kinship\, and global psychological 
 variation.”[1] Dr. Jonathan Schulz and his colleagues propose that part of 
 the psychological variation around the globe can be traced back to the acti
 on and diffusion of the Western Church\, the branch of Christianity that ev
 olved into the Roman Catholic Church. Specifically\, they propose that the 
 Western Church’s transformation of European kinship\, which promoted small\
 , nuclear households\, weak family ties\, and residential mobility\, foster
 ed greater individualism\, less conformity\, and more impersonal prosociali
 ty. By combining data on 24 psychological outcomes with historical measures
  of both Church exposure and kinship\, the research team found support for 
 these ideas across countries\, among European regions\, and among individua
 ls from different cultural backgrounds. \n\nThe results were published in 2
 019 in one of the world’s top academic journals\, Science\, and received in
 tensive international media coverage. One of the authors\, Dr. Jonathan Sch
 ulz from George Mason University\, will give a zoom talk UT Austin on April
  1 to tell us more about the design and the intriguing findings of his rese
 arch.  \n\n \n\nDr. Jonathan Schulz is an Assistant Professor in the Econom
 ics Department of George Mason University and affiliated with the Departmen
 t of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard.  His research lies at the inter
 section of psychology\, economic history\, and development economics. He is
  particularly interested in the co-evolution of informal and formal institu
 tions\, and the role of tight kinship norms for the formation of democratic
  institutions.  His work has been discussed in major news outlets including
  the Washington Post\, New York Times\, Wallstreet Journal\, The New Yorker
  among many others.
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SUMMARY:The Catholic Church\, Kinship Systems and European Development
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 nd_european_development
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