Emerging evidence of cultural differences linked to rice versus wheat agriculture - ScienceDirect Skip to main contentSkip to article ## Current Opinion in Psychology Date: April 2020 Pages: 81-88 ## Part of special issue Edited by Ayse K. Uskul, Shige Oishi ## Published by: Elsevier ### Published by Show more Review article Get rights and content # Emerging evidence of cultural differences linked to rice versus wheat agriculture Show more Add to Mendeley More actions ## Highlights - Previous article in this issue - Next article in this issue ## Organizational access Get full-text access by signing in with your organisation Access through your organization ### Other access options Need help with access? ## Section snippets ### Irrigation Unlike most major cereal crops, rice grows best in standing water. Rice can grow on dry land too, but properly flooded rice increases yield from 1.2 tons per hectare to 5 tons [4]. To get that standing water, rice villages built irrigation networks. Irrigation networks meant that farmers often had to fill and drain their fields at the same time [5]. Certain irrigation systems also pushed farmers to coordinate what they plan