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: 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. Asians tend to reason holistically, for example by considering people's behavior in terms of their situation; someone's anger might be viewed as simply a result of an irritating day. Yet many long-standing theories of how humans think rely on the prominence of analytical thought. By studying only W.E.I.R.D. populations, psychologists fail to account for a substantial amount of diversity of the global population as W.E.I.R.D. countries only represent 12% of the world’s population. Applying the findings from W.E.I.R.D. populations to other populations can lead to a miscalculation of psychological theories and may hinder psychologists' abilities to isolate fundamental cultural characteristics.