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Due to its nature, when studying human development, it is inevitable to separate the subject from both biological and cultural factors. The nature of the subject makes it impossible to apply an approach that does not include multiple factors. Readings of these week focus on cultural effects on human development and when they do that,…

Our final week was about culture and groups. To be more specific, how cultural effects can be fluid in different intergroup conditions. Our readings basically talked about how assumptions based on dichotomies such as individualism and collectivism or independency and interdependency can be wrong (Or this was one of the points I interpreted). A person…

This week’s subject was social class as culture. In our readings, social class is taken as not only a simple economic status, also as a cultural structure. Readings mainly focus on the psychological differences of individuals of subcultures which derived from different socioeconomic status. Our textbook mainly points out how lower-class has more interdependent or…

This week’s topic was personality and culture. The articles jointly focus on finding valid methodologies to study personality or personality traits in different cultures. While first article explains various key points about applying a measure to different cultures in the context of translation, the second article follows the way the first article paves and provides…

Subject of this week was acculturation. The term refers to the developing adaptation to a new cultural atmosphere. In the book, acculturation is explained in a more inclusive frame rather than just being able to adapt to new cultural norms. Acculturation process is divided into two dimensions: Explicit and implicit acculturation. Explicit acculturation refers to…

The articles of this week are about cultural effects on emotion. Last week, one of the articles about culture and language introduced us to the subject slightly. The article in the book explains the subject from various aspects and the second article presents a related study. One of the aspects presented in the book points…

The articles of this week were about culture and language. The first two articles provide a common perspective about how language is a product and the carrier of culture. The first article starts discussing the coevolution of culture and language and then moves on to the other aspects of language including perception and memory. The…

This week, we have read about the various ways of cultural influence on our cognition and perception. The article points out that culture affects our cognitions and perceptions in an indirect way, through social orientation. This indirect causation is supported with various aspects such as ecology, common occupations in a society and etc. In order…

In the book, Cohen does not simply explain how methodology works in cultural psychology, he also points out the techniques and approaches that can be invalid, out of date, or simply dogmatic. In the book, methodology is explained in a more critical approach. For example, making distinctions between cultures simply as individualistic or collectivistic is…

A week before, we talked about how culture is a key factor in almost all psychological components, including various cognitive processes. For example, the effects of culture on perception were mentioned in last week’s articles. This week’s articles are focusing on the differences in neural processes between people from different cultures. I think showing these…