Research

My research focuses on understanding how human values, personality, and contemplative practices manifest across diverse cultural and historical contexts. Traditionally, psychological phenomena have been studied using standardized measurement approaches that assume universal applicability across cultures. A growing body of research has shown that this traditional approach often obscures meaningful cultural variation and fails to capture the true complexity of psychological experiences in different populations.

In my research, I study how psychological constructs vary across cultures; I examine the network dynamics between values, personality traits, and well-being; and I develop new statistical frameworks that better represent psychological phenomena in diverse populations. I investigate how mindfulness and contemplative practices function differently across cultural contexts, and explore the evolution of personality cognition through historical and contemporary narratives.

I focus on advancing measurement invariance testing and network psychometrics to reveal cultural patterns that traditional approaches miss. My work employs a broad portfolio of methods including large-scale cross-cultural studies, computational text analysis of historical documents, network modeling, longitudinal designs, and innovative applications of complexity science to psychological questions.

This research programme is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together perspectives from psychology, computational science, anthropology, statistics, economics, political science, and the humanities to advance my understanding of human psychological diversity across time and culture.