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

• Marius Golubickis ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mgolubickis@uaeu.ac.ae

  Affiliation Department of Cognitive Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain‌‌, United Arab Emirates

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6128-0331

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• Parnian Jalalian,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland‌‌, United Kingdom

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• Leoni S. Masroujah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland‌‌, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2447-2309

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• Esther S. Selvaraj,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland‌‌, United Kingdom

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• Yadvi Sharma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland‌‌, United Kingdom

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• Siew Hwee Seow,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Social and Health Sciences, James Cook University, Singapore‌‌, Singapore

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• Adriana Borrego-Guerrero,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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• Sadie Marr,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland‌‌, United Kingdom

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• C. Neil Macrae

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland‌‌, United Kingdom

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