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Steven B. Jackson

About

Steven Jackson is a recent graduate of Beloit College, where he studied culture and cognition and journalism. Jackson is currently an Americorps volunteer in northern Montana. After his term of service, he plans to pursue jobs and internships in science writing. He is particularly interested in how cultural factors influence our individual psychological experiences.

Recent Posts
Masculine or Feminine? (And Why It Matters)
Gendered rules of language have multifarious effects on cognition — and they usually go unnoticed. Focusing on grammatical gender, this post explores the fascinating and always mysterious relationship between language and thought.
What's Funny?
Humor is a universal phenomenon, present in virtually all human groups. Despite its ubiquity, humor is far from being fully understood.
Chatting Up Culture With Steven Heine: Part II
The final installment of an interview with Steven Heine, a leading figure in cross-cultural psychology. A prolific researcher, author, and professor, Heine is constantly hard at work, pursuing the big questions in human behavior.
Chatting Up Culture With Steven Heine: Part I

In the first half of a two-part interview, renowned cross-cultural psychologist Steven Heine discusses his latest research, shares a critique of Western psychology, and tells us why everyone should care about this stuff.

In the first half of a two-part interview, renowned cross-cultural psychologist Steven Heine discusses his latest research, shares a critique of Western psychology, and tells us why everyone should care about this stuff.

Why Left Is Less and Right Is More (Sometimes)

We tend to think about numbers as existing in space. These spatial associations are shaped by cultural factors to some degree, but can also be tempered by experience in the here and now.

We tend to think about numbers as existing in space. These spatial associations are shaped by cultural factors to some degree, but can also be tempered by experience in the here and now.

Math Was Digital Long Before Calculators

By looking at culturally specific ways of dealing with numbers, we can begin to tease apart which aspects of math, while not transcending humanity, may at least be universal to all cultures. We'll start the exploration simply, the same way many of us learned to deal with numbers: by counting on our hands.

By looking at culturally specific ways of dealing with numbers, we can begin to tease apart which aspects of math, while not transcending humanity, may at least be universal to all cultures. We'll start the exploration simply, the same way many of us learned to deal with numbers: by counting on our hands.

Getting Grown

Nature, nurture, and the global experience of adolescence.

Nature, nurture, and the global experience of adolescence.