Chinese culture became more individualistic: Evidence from family structure, 1953-2017

1953: When Genes Became “Information”

In 1953, Watson and Crick not only described the double-helix structure of DNA, but also embraced the idea that genes contained a code that expresses information and thereby changed our view of life. This article traces how these ideas entered biological thinking and highlights the connections between different branches of science at the time, exploring the power of metaphor in science.

Context influences structure generation: Evidence from Chinese

How Sweden’s unemployment became more like Europe’s

“The main difficulty with the Eurosclerosis hypothesis is one of timing. Although details can be debated, no strong case exists that Europe’s welfare states were much more extensive or intrusive in the 1970s than in the 1960s, and no case at all exists that there was more interference in markets in the 1980s than in the 1970s. Why did a social system that seemed to work extremely well in the 19...

Demographic age structure and economic development: Evidence from Chinese provinces

Zhang, Haifeng, Zhang, Hongliang, and Zhang, Junsen—Demographic age structure and economic development: Evidence from Chinese provinces In this paper, we examine the economic implications of demographic age structure in the context of regional development in China. We extend the development accounting framework by incorporating age structure and apply it to a panel data set of 28 Chinese provin...

The structure-sensitivity of memory access: evidence from Mandarin Chinese

The present study examined the processing of the Mandarin Chinese long-distance reflexive ziji to evaluate the role that syntactic structure plays in the memory retrieval operations that support sentence comprehension. Using the multiple-response speed-accuracy tradeoff (MR-SAT) paradigm, we measured the speed with which comprehenders retrieve an antecedent for ziji. Our experimental materials ...