Title: Cultural Differences in Psychology - Psychologist World
Headings: Cultural Differences in Psychology
Cultural Differences in Psychology
How cultural differences can affect our perception and behavior.
Defining Culture
Individualism vs Collectivism
Bias in Experiments
Cultural Differences in Relationships and Attachments
Cultural differences in emotions
Culture and measuring intelligence
Designing better studies

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Cultural differences with respect to emotional intelligence have also been identified in participants in a Japanese study, in which participants were shown cartoons of people displaying varying emotions, surrounded by people who either showed the same or a different emotion. The researchers found that Japanese participants were more likely to evaluate the emotions of those surrounding the central person when trying to judge their emotion than Western participants did ( Masuda et al, 2008 ). 7 This indicates the influence of a collectivist culture in taking into account the emotions of the whole group, rather than focussing on an individual's emotional state. Culture and measuring intelligence
Cross-cultural analyses of psychology studies has also had implications for the way levels of intelligence are measured among populations. We might believe that intelligence can be measured objectively, and in the West, the Intelligence Quotient (IQ) test is commonly used to quantify and compare people's intelligence. However, across different cultures, this does not always provide an accurate measurement. One study by Sern