CROSS-CULTURAL SOCIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Psychology
- Vol. 47 (1), 205-235
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.47.1.205
Abstract
▪ Abstract This review considers recent theoretical and empirical developments in cross-cultural studies within social and organizational psychology. It begins with a description of the importance and the difficulties of universalizing psychological science. It then continues with an examination of theoretical work on both the internal-proximal and the external-distal constraints that mediate culture's influence on behavior. Influences on social cognition are documented by describing research on self-concept, self-esteem, emotions, attribution processes, person perception, interpersonal attraction, and justice. Group processes are addressed in the areas of leadership, decision-making, and negotiation, and research in organizational psychology is examined with respect to work motivation and work behavior. The review concludes that considerable improvement is evident in recent cross-cultural research. However, future research must include a broader range of cultures and attend more closely to the levels at which cultural effects should be analyzed, and cultural samples must be unpackaged in more psychologically useful ways.Keywords
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