CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Personality Psychology, Cultural Universal, Human Nature
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Cultural violations: an illustration: some aspects of personality are highly variable across cultures, others are universal. What is cultural personality psychology: within group similarities and between group differences can be of any sort, physical, psychological, behavioral, attitudinal: cultural variations. !kung san"s food supply is highly variable and they share food and express egalitarian beliefs. Depends on features of the social or physical environment. Independence theme is characterized by a self-view as autonomous, stable, coherent and free from the influence of others. Interdependence theme is characterized by self-view as connected, interpersonally flexible and committed to being bound to others: process of adapting to the ways of life in one"s new culture is called acculturation. Japanese students but not american tended to characterize themselves differently in different contexts: 84% of japanese students described themselves as ordinary, these themes even show up in language use.
