New places, same old faces: The effect of family contact intensity on psychological outcomes of residential mobility within Turkey

•Annually, around 2.5 million individuals migrate within the 81 provinces of Turkey.•Residential mobility weakens the primacy of a collective self, as reflected in lower preferences for homogamy and instilling a collective self in an offspring.•Residential mobility further increases tolerance to breaching patriarchal and traditional norms regarding gender roles and marriage.•Intensity of contact with extended family weakens the effect of residential mobility on these outcomes.