Cross-Cultural Psychology

This course has been designed to enhance students’ critical thinking skills in the comparative study of cultural effects on human psychology. Specifically, this course focuses on the examination of psychological diversity and the underlying reasons for such diversity. In particular, cross-cultural psychologists’ study, from a comparative perspective, the links between cultural norms and behavior and the ways in which particular human activities are influenced by different, sometimes dissimilar social and cultural forces. Cross-cultural psychology attempts not only to distinguish differences between groups but also to establish psychological universals and phenomena common to all people and groups.