PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Schadenfreude, Chopsticks, Cultural Psychology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 260
• Professor: Lara Aknin

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Defined: culture is a collection of discrete behaviours (norms cognitions shared by people within a culture, that are distinct from other populations) Ie: some cultures shake hands when first meeting, and others exchange a bow. Culture is everywhere, but it is hard to find unless we compare it to another culture. : most psychology studies are done on first year psyc students (weird), this population is not a good representation of the whole world. Only 12% of the world is weird (western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) Muller-lyer illusion- most weird subjects know the answer to this question is that both lines are the same length, but other people would be tricked and think that the >-< is longer than the This proves that because we are only measuring a certain group of people, their answers would not offer a worldly view of what culture actually is/pertains of. Cultural psychology allows us to do 4 things