Type of Credit: Elective
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Cultural psychology is the scientific study of how cultures affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals. In this course, we will have an in-depth discussion on the theories, concepts, and methods of cultural psychology. We will also discuss how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of individuals based on recent empirical research. Topics of this course include self and personality, motivation, cognition and perception, emotions, morality, etc., which are closely linked to other disciplines of psychology such as social psychology, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology. This course will adopt a seminar approach in which students will take turns to present and lead the in-class discussion based on the assigned readings.
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Submission of discussion questions |
Class discussion |
Class presentation |
Brief research proposal |
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Critically evaluate the theories and concepts of cultural psychology |
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Understand the importance of cultures in influencing the psychological processes of individuals |
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Critically evaluate the credibility and generalizability of recent empirical findings of cultural psychology |
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Apply appropriate methodology to design empirical studies of cultural psychology |
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Apply the knowledge of cultural psychology to other disciplines of psychology as well as real-life contexts |
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週次 Week |
課程主題 Topic |
課程內容與指定閱讀 (暫定) Content and Reading Assignment (Tentative) |
教學活動與作業 Teaching Activities and Homework |
學習投入時間Student workload expectation |
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課堂講授In-class Hours |
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1 (2/21) |
Introduction to cultural psychology |
Heine (2020) Ch. 1,2 |
Lecture and class discussion
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3 |
3 |
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2 (2/28) |
228 Memorial Day (No class) |
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3 (3/6) |
Methods of cultural psychology |
Heine (2020) Ch. 4 |
Lecture and class discussion |
3 |
6 |
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4 (3/13) |
Development and socialization |
Cheung, Chudek, & Heine (2011) Hartshorne et al. (2018) |
Lecture, class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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5 (3/20) |
Individualism and collectivism |
Hamamura (2012) Vishkin et al. (2023)
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Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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6 (3/27) |
Gender and social class |
Kraus et al. (2017) Varnum & Grossmann (2016) Chan et al. (2021) |
Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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7 (4/3) |
Intercollegiate Activities (No class) |
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8 (4/10) |
Self and personality |
Chiu et al. (1997) Cheung, van de Vijver, & Leong (2011) McCrae & Terracciano (2005) |
Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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9 (4/17) |
Motivation |
Sedikides et al. (2003) {Heine (2005) + Heine & Hamamura (2007) |
Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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10 (4/24) |
Cognition and perception |
Nisbett et al. (2001) Hong et al. (2000) |
Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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11 (5/1) |
Emotions |
Jack et al. (2016) Ortony (2021) Coles et al (2023) |
Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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12 (5/8) |
Interpersonal relationships |
Thomson et al. (2018) Wu et al. (2016) Walter et al. (2020) |
Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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13 (5/15) |
Morality |
Buchtel et al. (2015) Graham et al. (2016) Atari et al. (2023)
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Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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14 (5/22) |
Cooperation |
Wong & Hong (2005) Balliet & Van Lange (2013) |
Class presentation and discussion |
3 |
6 |
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15 (5/29) |
Methodological issues & multiculturalism |
Kahalon et al. (2022) López-Rodríguez et al. (2022) |
Class presentation and discussion |
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6 |
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16 (6/5) |
Proposal outline presentation |
Proposal outline presentation |
Class presentation and discussion |
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6 |
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17 (6/12) |
Self-directed study |
Research proposal preparation |
Research proposal preparation |
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9 |
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18 (6/19) |
Self-directed study |
Research proposal preparation |
Research proposal preparation |
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Submission of discussion questions: 15%
Class discussion: 20%
Class presentation: 30%
Brief research proposal: 35%
Assigned readings (Tentative):
Week 4:
Cheung, B. Y., Chudek, M., & Heine, S. J. (2011). Evidence for a sensitive period for acculturation: Younger immigrants report acculturating at a faster rate. Psychological Science, 22(2), 147-152.
Hartshorne, J. K., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Pinker, S. (2018). A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers. Cognition, 177, 263-277.
Week 5:
Hamamura, T. (2012). Are cultures becoming individualistic? A cross-temporal comparison of individualism–collectivism in the United States and Japan. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16(1), 3-24.
Vishkin, A., Kitayama, S., Berg, M. K., Diener, E., Gross-Manos, D., Ben-Arieh, A., & Tamir, M. (2023). Adherence to emotion norms is greater in individualist cultures than in collectivist cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(6), 1256-1276.
Week 6:
Kraus, M. W., Park, J. W., & Tan, J. J. (2017). Signs of social class: The experience of economic inequality in everyday life. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(3), 422-435.
Varnum, M. E., & Grossmann, I. (2016). Pathogen prevalence is associated with cultural changes in gender equality. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(1), 1-4.
Chan, M., Cheung, F., Lau, C., & Ma, T. F. (2021). Global trends in cross-cultural endorsement of social mobility: Evidence from 167 countries. American Psychologist, 76(6), 917-932.
Week 8:
Chiu, C. Y., Dweck, C. S., Tong, J. Y. Y., & Fu, J. H. Y. (1997). Implicit theories and conceptions of morality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73(5), 923-940.
Cheung, F. M., van de Vijver, F. J., & Leong, F. T. (2011). Toward a new approach to the study of personality in culture. American Psychologist, 66(7), 593-603.
McCrae, R. R., & Terracciano, A. (2005). Personality profiles of cultures: aggregate personality traits. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(3), 407-425.
Week 9:
Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L., & Toguchi, Y. (2003). Pancultural self-enhancement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(1), 60-79.
{ Heine, S. J. (2005). Where is the evidence for pancultural self-enhancement? A reply to Sedikides, Gaertner, and Toguchi (2003). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(4), 531-538. +
Sedikides, C., Gaertner, L., & Vevea, J. L. (2005). Pancultural self-enhancement reloaded: A meta-analytic reply to Heine (2005). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(4), 539-551. } *Same presenter for the two papers
Heine, S. J., & Hamamura, T. (2007). In search of East Asian self-enhancement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 11(1), 4-27.
Week 10:
Hong, Y. Y., Morris, M. W., Chiu, C. Y., & Benet-Martinez, V. (2000). Multicultural minds: A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition. American Psychologist, 55(7), 709-720.
Nisbett, R. E., Peng, K., Choi, I., & Norenzayan, A. (2001). Culture and systems of thought: holistic versus analytic cognition. Psychological Review, 108(2), 291-310.
Week 11:
Jack, R. E., Sun, W., Delis, I., Garrod, O. G., & Schyns, P. G. (2016). Four not six: Revealing culturally common facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(6), 708-730.
Ortony, A. (2021). Are All “Basic Emotions” Emotions? A Problem for the (Basic) Emotions Construct. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(1), 41-61.
Coles, N. A., Gaertner, L., Frohlich, B., Larsen, J. T., & Basnight-Brown, D. M. (2023). Fact or artifact? Demand characteristics and participants’ beliefs can moderate, but do not fully account for, the effects of facial feedback on emotional experience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(2), 287-310.
Week 12:
Thomson, R., Yuki, M., Talhelm, T., Schug, J., Kito, M., Ayanian, A. H., ... & Visserman, M. L. (2018). Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(29), 7521-7526.
Wu, T. F., Cross, S. E., Wu, C. W., Cho, W., & Tey, S. H. (2016). Choosing your mother or your spouse: Close relationship dilemmas in Taiwan and the United States. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47(4), 558-580.
Walter, K. V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D. M., Asao, K., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., ... & Zupančič, M. (2020). Sex differences in mate preferences across 45 countries: A large-scale replication. Psychological Science, 31(4), 408-423.
Week 13:
Buchtel, E. E., Guan, Y., Peng, Q., Su, Y., Sang, B., Chen, S. X., & Bond, M. H. (2015). Immorality east and west: Are immoral behaviors especially harmful, or especially uncivilized?. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(10), 1382-1394.
Graham, J., Meindl, P., Beall, E., Johnson, K. M., & Zhang, L. (2016). Cultural differences in moral judgment and behavior, across and within societies. Current Opinion in Psychology, 8, 125-130.
Atari, M., Haidt, J., Graham, J., Koleva, S., Stevens, S. T., & Dehghani, M. (2023). Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(5), 1157–1188.
Week 14:
Balliet, D., & Van Lange, P. A. (2013). Trust, punishment, and cooperation across 18 societies: A meta-analysis. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(4), 363-379.
Wong, R. Y. M., & Hong, Y. Y. (2005). Dynamic influences of culture on cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma. Psychological Science, 16(6), 429-434.
Week 15:
Kahalon, R., Klein, V., Ksenofontov, I., Ullrich, J., & Wright, S. C. (2022). Mentioning the sample’s country in the article’s title leads to bias in research evaluation. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(2), 352-361.
López-Rodríguez, L., Halperin, E., Vázquez, A., Cuadrado, I., Navas, M., & Gómez, Á. (2022). Awareness of the psychological bias of naïve realism can increase acceptance of cultural differences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(6), 888-900.
Other references:
Heine, S. J. (2020). Cultural psychology (4th ed.). Norton.
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