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Q1: What is Cultural Psychology

If you want to learn more, the following papers may be useful.
Kitayama, S., & Salvador, C. E. (2017). Culture Embrained: Going Beyond the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(5), 841–854.
Kitayama, S. & Uskul, A. K. Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 62, 419–449 (2011)
Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. Psychological Review, 98(2), 224–253.

 

Savani, K., Markus, H. R. & Conner, A. L. Let your preference be your guide? Preferences and choices are more tightly linked for North Americans than for Indians. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 95, 861–876 (2008).

Uchida, Y. & Kitayama, S. Happiness and unhappiness in east and west: Themes and variations. Emotion 9, 441–456 (2009).

Masuda, T. & Nisbett, R. E. Attending Holistically Versus Analytically: Comparing the Context Sensitivity of Japanese and Americans. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 83, 992–934 (2001).

 

Talhelm, T. et al. Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat Agriculture. Science 344, 603–608 (2014).

Uskul, A. K., Kitayama, S. & Nisbett, R. E. Ecocultural basis of cognition: Farmers and fishermen are more holistic than herders. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105, 8552–8556 (2008).

Kitayama, S., Ishii, K., Imada, T., Takemura, K. & Ramaswamy, J. Voluntary settlement and the spirit of independence: Evidence from Japan’s ‘northern frontier.’ J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 91, 369–384 (2006).

 

 

Kitayama, S., Park, H., Sevincer, A. T., Karasawa, M. & Uskul, A. K. A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: Comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 97, 236–255 (2009).

San Martin, A. et al. Self-assertive interdependence in Arab culture. Nat. Hum. Behav. 2, 830–837 (2018).

Salvador, C., Berg, M., Yu, Q., San Martin, A. & Kitayama, S. Relational mobility predicts the increased speed of the spread of COVID-19: A 37 country study. (2020).

 

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