- "Cross-cultural psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes, including both their variability and invariance, under diverse cultural conditions."
Deals with the study of the differences in behavior, cognition and emotion between cultures.
Culture: The shared beliefs, values, behaviors, and artifacts that characterize a group or society.
Cultural Differences: The diverse ways that cultures differ from one another, including communication styles, social norms, gender roles, and values.
Culture Shock: The disorientation and anxiety experienced when adapting to a new culture, particularly in regards to language, customs, and behaviors.
Acculturation: The process by which individuals or groups adopt the behaviors, values, and beliefs of a new culture while also maintaining aspects of their own culture.
Ethnocentrism: The belief that one's own culture is superior to others, often leading to cultural stereotypes, discrimination, and prejudice.
Cultural Competence: The ability to understand, appreciate, and effectively interact with individuals from diverse cultures.
Intercultural Communication: Communication between individuals from different cultures that includes verbal and nonverbal behaviors, cultural norms, and contextual factors.
Cultural Identity: The sense of belonging to a particular cultural group or community and the way in which this identity shapes one's beliefs, behaviors, and attitudes.
Cross-Cultural Adaptation: The process of adjusting to a new culture in order to function effectively within that culture.
Bicultural Identity: The ability to adapt to and navigate between two different cultures, often leading to a hybrid identity.
Culture and Psychology: The study of how culture influences individual and group behavior, emotion, cognition, and mental health.
- "Many attempts to replicate notable experiments in other cultures had varying success, leading to concerns about the universality of psychological constructs."
- "Through expanding research methodologies to recognize cultural variance in behavior, language, and meaning, it seeks to extend and develop psychology."
- "Cross-cultural psychology re-examines theories dealing with central themes, such as affect, cognition, conceptions of the self, and issues such as psychopathology, anxiety, and depression."
- "Some critics have pointed to methodological flaws in cross-cultural psychological research and claim that serious shortcomings in the theoretical and methodological bases used impede, rather than help, the scientific search for universal principles in psychology."
- "While cross-cultural psychology represented only a minor area of psychology prior to WWII, it began to grow in importance during the 1960s."
- "In 1971, the interdisciplinary Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) was founded."
- "Cross-cultural psychology includes a search for possible universals in behavior and mental processes."
- "Cross-cultural psychology is differentiated from cultural psychology, which refers to the branch of psychology that holds that human behavior is strongly influenced by cultural differences, meaning that psychological phenomena can only be compared with each other across cultures to a limited extent."
- "Cross-cultural psychology seeks to factor in cultural differences in behavior, language, and meaning when examining psychological theories."
- "In 1972, the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) was established."
- "Cross-cultural psychology has expanded as there has been an increasing popularity of incorporating culture and diversity into studies of numerous psychological phenomena."
- "International psychology centers around the global expansion of psychology, especially during recent decades."
- "Cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, and international psychology are united by a common concern for expanding psychology into a universal discipline capable of understanding psychological phenomena across cultures and in a global context."
- "Cross-cultural psychologists are turning more to the study of how differences occur, rather than searching for universals in the style of physics or chemistry."
- "Cross-cultural psychology can be thought of as a type [of] research methodology, rather than an entirely separate field within psychology."
- "The increasing popularity of incorporating culture and diversity into studies of numerous psychological phenomena has led to the continued expansion of cross-cultural psychology."
- "Cross-cultural psychology recognizes that attempts to replicate notable experiments in other cultures have varying success, questioning the assumed universality of psychological constructs."
- "The interdisciplinary Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) was founded in 1971."
- "There are questions as to whether theories dealing with central themes... may lack external validity when 'exported' to other cultural contexts."