Title: Cultural psychology - Wikipedia
Headings: Cultural psychology
Cultural psychology
Contents
Relationships with other branches of psychology
Importance
Need for expanded cultural research
Mutual constitution
Criticisms
Stereotyping
Faulty methodology
Methods
Cultural models
The 4 I's culture cycle
Individuals
Interactions
Institutions
Ideas
Whiting model
Culture and motivation
Self-enhancement vs. self-improvement
Culture and empathy
Cultural orientation: collectivistic and individualistic
Empathy across cultures
Intercultural and ethnocultural empathy
The Nijmegen school of cultural psychology
Research institutions
See also
References
Further reading

Content: As Richard Shweder, one of the major proponents of the field, writes, "Cultural psychology is the study of the way cultural traditions and social practices regulate, express, and transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity for humankind than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion." Contents
1 Relationships with other branches of psychology
2 Importance
2.1 Need for expanded cultural research
3 Mutual constitution
4 Criticisms
4.1 Stereotyping
4.2 Faulty methodology
5 Methods
6 Cultural models
6.1 The 4 I's culture cycle
6.1.1 Individuals
6.1.2 Interactions
6.1.3 Institutions
6.2 Whiting model
7 Culture and motivation
7.1 Self-enhancement vs. self-improvement
8 Culture and empathy
8.1 Cultural orientation: collectivistic and individualistic
8.2 Empathy across cultures
8.3 Intercultural and ethnocultural empathy
9 The Nijmegen school of cultural psychology
10 Research institutions
11 See also
12 References
13 Further reading
Relationships with other branches of psychology
Cultural psychology is often confused with cross-cultural psychology. However, cultural psychology is distinct from cross-cultural psychology in that the cross-cultural psychologists generally use culture as a means of testing the universality of psychological processes rather than determining how local cultural practices shape psychological processes. So whereas a cross-cultural psychologist might ask whether Jean Piaget 's stages of development are universal across a variety of cultures, a cultural psychologist would be interested in how the social practices of a particular set of cultures shape the development of cognitive processes in different ways. Cultural psychology research informs several fields within psychology, including social psychology, cultural-historical psychology, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology. However, the constructivist perspective of cultural psychology, through which cultural psychologists study thought patterns and behaviors within and across cultures, tends to clash with the universal perspectives common in most fields in psychology, which seek to qualify fundamental psychological truths that are consistent across all of humanity. Importance
Need for expanded cultural research
According to Richard Shweder, there has been repeated failure to replicate Western psychology laboratory findings in non-Western settings. Therefore, a major goal of cultural psychology is to have many and varied cultures contribute to basic psychological theories in order to correct these theories so that they become more relevant to the predictions, descriptions, and explanations of all human behaviors, not just Western ones. This goal is shared by many of the scholars who promote the indigenous psychology approach.