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Kesson Magid's Outputs (3)

Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men (2018)
Journal Article
Magid, K., Chatterton, R. T., Ahamed, F. U., & Bentley, G. R. (2018). Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(7), 1146-1154. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0567-6

Male reproductive investment is energetically costly, and measures of human reproductive steroid hormones (testosterone), developmental tempo (pubertal timing) and growth (stature) correlate with local ecologies at the population level. It is unclear... Read More about Childhood ecology influences salivary testosterone, pubertal age and stature of Bangladeshi UK migrant men.

Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes (2017)
Journal Article
Magid, K., Sarkol, V., & Mesoudi, A. (2017). Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes. Royal Society Open Science, 4(5), Article 161025. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.161025

Cultural psychologists have shown that people from Western countries exhibit more independent self-construal and analytic (rule-based) cognition than people from East Asia, who exhibit more interdependent self-construal and holistic (relationship-bas... Read More about Experimental priming of independent and interdependent activity does not affect culturally variable psychological processes.

How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes (2016)
Journal Article
Mesoudi, A., Magid, K., & Hussain, D. (2016). How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes. PLoS ONE, 11(1), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147162

Cultural psychologists have shown that people from Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) countries often exhibit different psychological processing to people from less-WEIRD countries. The former exhibit more individualistic and... Read More about How Do People Become W.E.I.R.D.? Migration Reveals the Cultural Transmission Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Psychological Processes.