C14 Cross-cultural Social Psychology
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1.1.  Historical Assumptions

1.2.  Invariant Behaviors

1.3.  Individualistic vs. Collectivistic cultures

1.4.  Geert Hofstede

     1.4.1.     Power distance

     1.4.2.     Uncertainty Avoidance

     1.4.3.     Individualism v. Collectivism

     1.4.4.     Masculinity v Femininity

     1.4.5.     Confucian Work Dynamism

 

2. Evaluating Cross-Cultural Research

2.1. Methods

2.2. Validity

2.3. Reliability

2.4. Equivalence

     2.4.1. Equivalence of translation

     2.4.2. Equivalence of concepts

     2.4.3. Equivalence of Metric

2.5. Sampling issues

 

3. Research design

3.1. Correlation

3.2. T-tests

3.3. Experimental methods

3.4. Content analysis

3.5. Meta-analysis

 

4. Research methods

4.1. Systematic observation

     4.1.1. Naturalistic Observation

     4.1.2. Structured Observation

4.2. Self-Reports

     4.2.1. Questionnaires

     4.2.2. Interviews

 
"We should not criticize others, however, for making generalizations. Cross cultural psychology requires a great deal of imagination and abstraction.  Concrete human activities take place in diverse and unique contexts, with a huge variety of underlying factors.  To understand and compare psychological phenomena, the researcher should assume that the number of such factors is limited.  This inevitability leads to generalizations.”

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