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Cross Cultural Psychology

Raju Mahendra is a student in Class/Semester PBI 2/4. His lesson is on cross-cultural understanding. Cross-cultural psychology systematically studies how behavior and experiences are influenced by and influence different cultures. It aims to establish universal psychological findings by measuring constructs equivalently across many cultures from different regions. However, some argue psychology should be understood from within each culture and not compared, as vast differences exist between cultural populations.

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Cross Cultural Psychology

Raju Mahendra is a student in Class/Semester PBI 2/4. His lesson is on cross-cultural understanding. Cross-cultural psychology systematically studies how behavior and experiences are influenced by and influence different cultures. It aims to establish universal psychological findings by measuring constructs equivalently across many cultures from different regions. However, some argue psychology should be understood from within each culture and not compared, as vast differences exist between cultural populations.

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Name : Raju Mahendra

Class/ Semester: PBI 2/ 4

Lesson: Cross cultural understanding

1. Explain " Cross cultural psychology completed with expert from theory

Cross-Cultural Psychology Definition

“Cross-cultural psychology is concerned with the systematic study of behavior and experience as it
occurs in different cultures, is influenced by culture, or results in changes in existing cultures” (Triandis.
1980. p. 1). This broad definition includes both contemporary cross-cultural psychology and cultural
psychology.

Contemporary cross-cultural psychology examines psychological phenomena in many cultures. It


measures psychological constructs equivalently in different cultures. An ideal study would use an
instrument that has equivalent meaning in cultures sampled from all the cultural regions of the world.
One of the purposes of cross-cultural psychology is to establish the generality of psychological findings,
and thus a broad sampling of cultures is appropriate. The theoretical framework is universalistic, and
assumes the psychic unCross-Cultural Psychologyity of humankind.

Cross-Cultural Psychology Theories and Methods of Study

The question of how information about the psychological functioning of various cultural and ethnic
populations can be studied runs through the history of cross-cultural psychology like a thread. One
tradition is based on Waitz’s notion of the “psychic unity of mankind.” according to which the human
psyche is essentially similar across cultures.

The tradition is rooted in the European Enlightenment of the seventeenth to nineteenth century, when
philosophers such as Hume and Kant emphasized the basic similarity of human behavior across times
and cultures and the need for cross-cultural research in identifying the principles governing this
universality. In the Romantic rebellion against the Enlightenment (expressed in the work of Rousseau
and Herder. among others, vast differences in the psychological functioning of different cultural
populations were emphasized). Attempts to compare cultures cannot but involve peripheral aspects of
psychological functioning. The tradition is noncomparative and maintains that cultures should be
understood “from within.” The debate between these two approaches has recurred under various
disguises. Examples include the distinction between universalism and cultural relativism. cross-cultural
and cultural psychology, and etic and emic approaches (a popular terminology in cross-cultural
psychology, drawing on a distinction by the linguist Kenneth Pike). The distinction between a
comparative and noncomparative perspective in anthropology and between the nomothetic and
ideographic approach in mainstream psychology have similar roots.

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