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Cross-Cultural Psychology

A topic within History & Schools of Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.

Reading on Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Paper1991

Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

Hazel Rose Markus & Shinobu Kitayama

Argues many findings taken as universal facts about cognition, emotion and motivation instead depend on whether a culture construes the self as independent from others or as fundamentally interdependent with them, a distinction that changes what counts as a normal, well-adjusted self.

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Paper2001

Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic Versus Analytic Cognition

Richard E. Nisbett, Kaiping Peng, Incheol Choi & Ara Norenzayan

Argues East Asians and Westerners differ systematically in basic cognitive processes - attention, causal attribution, categorisation and logic - tracing these to different ancient philosophical traditions rather than to universal cognitive architecture.

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Reading on Cross-Cultural Psychology

Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

Culture and Systems of Thought: Holistic Versus Analytic Cognition

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