This lab seems like it is heaven

http://www.stanford.edu/group/mcslab/cgi-bin/wordpress/examine-the-research/#project6
Remember this:

The Dynamic between Independence and Interdependence in
Middle Eastern Cultural Contexts

Although we have had increasingly close political and economic ties with the Middle East in the past decades, there has been very little research to understand the Middle Eastern cultural contexts so far. Existing few studies in the literature indicate that individuals in the Middle Eastern contexts possess independent and interdependent tendencies in different domains. Although they tend to have self- enhancing biases, such as unrealistic optimism, even more than the individuals in the Western contexts, they also tend to highly value conformity just as the individuals in the East Asian contexts do. In this research, we aim to understand the roots and nature of this dynamic between independence and interdependence in the Middle Eastern cultural contexts along with its implications for the relations between the US and Middle East

Social Butterflies

Speaking of where research ideas come from...I wonder if there has been  research done on social butterflies...I should look into this.