Tag
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Entries tagged cross-cultural psychology.
3 entries
Concept
Individualism and Collectivism
The most-studied axis in cross-cultural psychology, on which cultures range from prizing the self-contained individual to prizing the person embedded in a group.
10 min
ConceptThe Universality of Facial Expressions
Paul Ekman's claim that a handful of basic emotions wear the same face in every culture, and the unsettled scientific fight over whether the evidence actually supports it.
7 min
ConceptThe WEIRD-Sample Critique
The finding that most published psychology describes people who are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic, a narrow and often unrepresentative slice of the species mistaken for a universal baseline.
9 min