Cross-cultural psychology is the branch of psychology that studies human behavior and mental processes across different cultural contexts, searching for both universal patterns and culture-specific variation, motivated partly by concern that psychological theories developed largely in North America and Europe might not generalize elsewhere. It is distinguished from the related field of cultural psychology, which holds that psychological phenomena are shaped by culture strongly enough that they can be compared across cultures only to a limited extent.
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Central QuestionHow do psychological processes, such as cognition, emotion, personality and social behavior, vary or stay constant across different cultures? 1 Key DebateHow much of psychology, developed and tested largely on Western, educated populations, generalizes to humanity as a whole, given that attempts to replicate well-known experiments in other cultures have had varying success. 1 Connections
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His cultural dimensions theory is one of cross-cultural psychology's most widely used frameworks.
A founding figure of cross-cultural psychology, known for work on individualism and collectivism.
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Source Fons van de Vijver (Wikipedia)
Additional Source Wikipedia: Geert HofstedeOpening biographical paragraph
Additional Source Wikipedia: Harry C. TriandisIntroduction
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Source Wikipedia: Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's values orientation theory
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1. Wikipedia: Cross-Cultural Psychology
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many attempts to replicate notable experiments in other cultures had varying success.
Wikipedia: Geert Hofstede
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well known for his pioneering research on cross-cultural groups and organizations
Wikipedia: Harry C. Triandis
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He was considered a pioneer of cross-cultural psychology and his research focused on the cognitive aspects of attitudes, norms, roles and values in different cultures.
Wikipedia: Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's values orientation theory
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Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's values orientation theory (put forward in 1961) proposes that all human societies must answer a limited number of universal problems, that the value-based solutions are limited in number and universally known, but that different cultures have different preferences among them.
John W. Berry (psychologist) (Wikipedia)
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The first is broadly in the domain of cross-cultural psychology; the second is in the domain of intercultural psychology.
Fons van de Vijver (Wikipedia)
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Alphonsius Josephus Rachel (Fons) van de Vijver (4 October 1952-1 June 2019) was a Dutch psychologist and Professor of Cross-cultural Psychology at Tilburg University, North-West University, University of Queensland, and National Research University Higher School of Economics.
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