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The rise of cross-cultural psychology reflects a general process of globalization in the social sciences that seeks to purify specific areas of research which have western biases. In this way, cross-cultural psychology (together with international psychology) aims to make psychology less ethnocentric in character than it has been in the past ...
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of cross-cultural psychology. The editor-in-chief is Deborah L. Best (Wake Forest University). It has been in publication since 1970 and is published by SAGE Publications.
The theory of basic human values is a theory of cross-cultural psychology and universal values developed by Shalom H. Schwartz. The theory extends previous cross-cultural communication frameworks such as Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory. Schwartz identifies ten basic human values, distinguished by their underlying motivation or goals, and ...
The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology is an international learned society dedicated to advancing research in cross-cultural psychology, and to facilitating communication among researchers in the field. It was founded in 1972 in Hong Kong. [1]
However, it was Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory that really initiated the wave of cross-cultural research on values. His four (later increased to six) dimensions of cultural values have become a major tool in many kinds of cross-cultural research. [3] Values, however, have important limitations for predicting behavior.
This category includes topics related to cross-cultural psychology (CCP), topics in CCP research, cross-cultural psychologists, organizations, journals and related material. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Cultural psychology is often confused with cross-cultural psychology.Even though both fields influence each other, cultural psychology is distinct from cross-cultural psychology in that cross-cultural psychologists generally use culture as a means of testing the universality of psychological processes rather than determining how local cultural practices shape psychological processes. [12]
Cross-cultural psychiatry (also known as Ethnopsychiatry or transcultural psychiatry or cultural psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry concerned with the cultural context of mental disorders and the challenges of addressing ethnic diversity in psychiatric services.