Are societies becoming more self-centric? Evidence from five decades of popular music spanning three continents (IMAGE)

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Are societies becoming more self-centric? Evidence from five decades of popular music spanning three continents

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Mean use of first-person singular pronouns as a function of Year and Country/Region. Note. Hong Kong is abbreviated to HK. Lines represent model predictions (incl. random effects) with 95% Confidence intervals; points represent yearly means ± SE.

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Golubickis et al., 2026, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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