October, 2024

W2 – Culture and Mind

October 20, 2024, zeynep rana cakar PSY3402 CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY, , 3

The ‘Culture and Neuroscience’ chapter is very informative. It illuminates how culture affects the mind and gene & culture relationship profoundly and comprehensively in psychology. Comparing self-reports of self-esteem in East Asians and Europeans, I agree with the interpretation of intentionally hiding self-esteem in Eastern cultures and their social modesty norm. In Turkey, we may […]

W1 – Cultural Psychology and Social Dynamics

October 13, 2024, zeynep rana cakar PSY3402 CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY, , 2

Being an ‘appropriate’ or ‘culturally pathological/inferior’ person under Western (more powerful) standards, domination, and, pressure is seriously problematic in all agencies in the downward constitution. Especially because today most findings and generalizations in cultural psychology come from the US and middle class in the West, the tendency of people trying to understand the subject to […]