Cross-Cultural Psychology

A Cross-Cultural Study about Positive and Negative Emotions and Its Relation to Health and Well-being

German Cross-Cultural Psychologyl

The present study deals with German-language cross-cultural research in different fields o· psychology which attempts to achieve one Or more goals of cross-cultural psychology First, methodological problems are discussed, followed by a selective presentation of cross cultural research in personality, clinical, ethological, developmental, and social psychology The theoretical and methodological ...

Culture and its Transfer: Ways of Creating General Knowledge Through the Study of Cultural Particulars

Two perspectives of scientific inquiry-both making use of the notion of culture-are analyzed from the perspective of how general knowledge is being constructed by each. It is demonstrated how cross-cultural psychology has made use of traditional psychology's inductive emphasis on comparisons of samples (and generalization to populations). Cross-cultural psychology has been a part of general and...

Intersubjective Norms: Cultural and Interpersonal Perspective

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1 Introduction to the Methodological Issues Associated With Cross - Cultural Research

Although once considered to be at the margins of psychological science, the study of culture has blossomed into one of the most important areas of research today. Studies involving cultural variables appear more frequently than ever before in mainstream journals in developmental, clinical, personality, and social psychology, aswell as in specialty journals such as the Journal of Cross-Cultural ...

Annotated Bibliography of Materials for Adding an International Dimension to Undergraduate Courses in Developmental and Social Psychology

For centuries cross-cultural comparisons have contributed to attempts to understand human behavior (Herodotus being an often-quoted early example). Specialized journals for publishing cross-cultural psychological studies have been in existence for less than 20 years, however. The founding of the International Journal of Psychology took place in 1966. The first Annual Review article on culture a...