Cross-Cultural Psychology (PDF)

This textbook of cultural psychology or cross-cultural psychology clarifies exciting questions about differences and similarities between cultures: Are people of other cultural origins different from us? Or are similar deep structures of thinking, feeling, and acting hidden beneath the surface of the exotic or threatening foreign? But why do conspicuous differences in behaviour occur, and how can they be explained? - In our globalised world, in which members of different cultures meet more and more frequently due to economic relations, internet communication and migration movements, these topics are increasingly discussed emotionally - cultural psychology responds to this with scientifically sound contributions. In addition, it sees itself as an interdisciplinary discipline that critically examines the supposedly universal psychological laws of perception, feeling and thinking that have been established in Western culture.

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Subject area of comparative cultural psychology - Methodological considerations - Culture and phylogenetic development - Plant-environment controversy from a comparative cultural perspective - Description and classification of cultures - Perception - Cognitive abilities and performance - Emotion - Language and communication - Personality - Biological and social gender - Childhood and adolescent development - Work environment - Mental disorders

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