PSYC 2740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Upper Class, Social Class, Agreeableness
31 May 2018
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CULTURE AND PERSONALITY
• What is cultural personality psychology
o Culture
▪ Local within group similarity
▪ Between group differences
o Collectively referred to as cultural variations
• Three major approaches to culture
o Evoked culture
▪ Culture triggered in different ways in different environments
• Cooperation
o High variance= more sharing
• Mating
o Impulsivity and early reproduction
▪ Harsh, inconsistent childcare
▪ Erratically provided resources
▪ Marital discord
o Mating strategies differently evoked in different cultures
▪ China
• Marriages lasting
o Parents invest in kids
o Value virginity and chastity
▪ Sweden
• Divorce more common
o Children born outside marriage
o Do’t value virgiity ad chastity
• Honors, insults, aggression
o Insults
▪ Offensive public challenges met with
• Confrontation
• Physical aggression
▪ Southern USA
• More likely to endorse violence and
aggression on response to insults
o For protection
• Conformity
o Due to
▪ Disease causing pathogens
▪ Avoidance of diseases
o Transmitted culture
▪ Culture i oe perso’s id is trasitted to others
• Morals
o Is it appropriate to
▪ Disobey parents
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