PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: San People, Abhorrence, Personality Psychology
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Personality psychologists explore personality across cultures for several important reasons: discover whether concepts of personality in one culture, such as. Some aspects of personality (including attitudes, values, and self-concepts) are highly variable across cultures. But other aspects of personality are universal features that are shared by people everywhere. How do people from different cultures differ in personality, and how are people from all cultures the same? . Within-group similarities and between-group differences can be of any sort physical, psychological, behavioral, or attitudinal. E. g. beef eating is common among americans but is rare and viewed with abhorrence among hindus. Cultural personality psychology has three goals: to discover the principles underlying the cultural diversity, to discover how human psychology shapes culture, to discover how cultural understandings in turn shape our psychology. Evoked culture cultural differences created by differing environmental conditions activating a predictable set of responses.
