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: Thus far, W.E.I.R.D. populations have been vastly overrepresented in psychological research. In an analysis of top journals in the psychology discipline, it was found that 96% of subjects who participated in those studies came from Western Industrialized countries, with 68% of them coming from the United States. This is largely due to the fact that 99% of the authors of these journals were at Western Universities with 73% of them at American Universities. With this information, it is concluded that 96% of psychological findings come from W.E.I.R.D. countries. Findings from psychology research utilizing primarily W.E.I.R.D. populations are often labeled as universal theories and are inaccurately applied to other cultures. Recent research is showing that cultures differ in many areas, such as logical reasoning and social values. The evidence that basic cognitive and motivational processes vary across populations has become increasingly difficult to ignore. For example, many studies have shown that Americans, Canadians and western Europeans rely on analytical reasoning strategies, which separate objects from their contexts to explain and predict behavior. Social psychologists refer to the " fundamental attribution error " or the tendency to explain people's behavior in terms of internal, inherent personality traits rather than external, situational considerations (e.g. attributing an instance of angry behavior to an angry personality). Outside W.E.I.R.D. cultures, however, this phenomenon is less prominent, as many non-W.E.I.R.D. populations tend to pay more attention to the context in which behavior occurs.