Toward a Psychological Science for a Cultural Species
- 1 September 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Vol. 1 (3), 251-269
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00015.x
Abstract
Humans are a cultural species, and the study of human psychology benefits from attention to cultural influences. Cultural psychology's contributions to psychological science can largely be divided according to the two different stages of scientific inquiry. Stage 1 research seeks cultural differences and establishes the boundaries of psychological phenomena. Stage 2 research seeks underlying mechanisms of those cultural differences. The literatures regarding these two distinct stages are reviewed, and various methods for conducting Stage 2 research are discussed. The implications of culture-blind and multicultural psychologies for society and intergroup relations are also discussed.This publication has 122 references indexed in Scilit:
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