Cross-Cultural Psychology • DION, MARY ANNE C. • GARCIA, BRYON ALEXIS C. • LLARENA, JAIME RAPHAEL L. • SUPAPO, RAFAEL C. • VIRAY, FRANCIS PAOLO J. CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY DEFINITIONS • A branch of psychology that looks at how cultural factors influence human behavior. • The study of similarities and differences in behavior among individuals who have developed in different cultures. • 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 CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY HISTORY - Cross-cultural psychology emerged as a separate discipline from both psychology and anthropology during the late 1960’s - But according to some studies, as early as the fifth century B.C., Herodotus, a Greek historian, already had insights about human ethnocentrism (Jahoda & Krewer, 1997; Klineberg, 1980). - 1970- the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology was published CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY WHAT DOES CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY DO? • It can eliminate the biases in researches and test the applicability or generalizability of various theories and psychological tests across different culture. • It helps establish a deep understanding of psychology in different cultural context CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY APPROACHES IN CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY • The etic approach- studies culture through an "outsider" perspective, applying one "universal" set of concepts and measurements to all cultures. In this approach, the researcher is trying to explain culture from his own perspective. • The emic approach- studies culture using an "insider" perspective, analyzing concepts within the specific context of the observed culture. In this approach, the researchers tries to explain culture from the perspective of the people being studied REFERENCES: • Klineberg. O. (1980). Historical perspectives: Cross-cultural psychology before 1960. In H. C. Triandis & W. W. Lambert (Eds.). Handbook of cross-cultural psychology (Vol. 1. pp. 1-14). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. • Jahoda. G .. & Krewer. B. (1997). History of cross-cultural and cultural psychology. In J. W. Berry. Y. H. Poortinga. & J. Pandey (Eds.). Handbook of cross-cultural psychology (2nd ed., pp. 1-42). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. (Original work published 1980) REFERENCES: • https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo9780199828340/obo-9780199828340-0111.xml • https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-cross-cultural-psychology-2794903 • http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/cross-culturalpsychology/ • http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/cross-culturalpsychology/history-of-cross-cultural-psychology/
