@article {612329,
	title = {The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation},
	journal = {Science},
	volume = {366},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {Recent research not only confirms the existence of substantial psychological variation around the globe\&nbsp;but also highlights the peculiarity of many Western populations. We propose that part of this variation\&nbsp;can be traced back to the action and diffusion of the Western Church, the branch of Christianity\&nbsp;that evolved into the Roman Catholic Church. Specifically, we propose that the Western Church{\textquoteright}s\&nbsp;transformation of European kinship, by promoting small, nuclear households, weak family ties, and\&nbsp;residential mobility, fostered greater individualism, less conformity, and more impersonal prosociality. By\&nbsp;combining data on 24 psychological outcomes with historical measures of both Church exposure and\&nbsp;kinship, we find support for these ideas in a comprehensive array of analyses across countries, among\&nbsp;European regions, and among individuals from different cultural backgrounds.},
	url = {https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/eaau5141},
	author = {Jonathan Schulz and Duman Bahrami-Rad and Jonathan P. Beauchamp and Henrich, Joseph}
}
