Culture and Cognition

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For three decades, I've written about how culture impacts how we think and interact. This substack is created to explore the latest research and update some stories from the past.

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About Ethan Watters

I'm an author and journalist who writes about culture, technology, psychiatry, and social psychology. My book Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche charts the impact of Western psychology around the world.

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