by Mary Tyrer

Created on: December 17, 2010

Personal traits and distinctive characteristics, is what make a culture unique among itself. Culture is how people within a group of like attitudes, behaviors, and symbols are communally within a certain division or sect of people that normally is in a like fashion from one to the next (Feist, 2009). Put in other terms culture is not composition humanity rather a group of hereditary attributes like a person’s race, or a common inherited beginning, that will include, but not always, language, or religion. However, additional backgrounds will construct the continuing characteristics that make up culture. Culture is not as simple as the few items on this list, yet an all-inclusive clarification of culture is becoming harder to define. Cross-culture Psychology is a psychological culture of intertwining relationships, crossing the boundaries of race, religion, foods, methodologies and the role that critical thinking plays a part in cross culture psychology.

Relationships Between Cross-culture Psychology

Shiraev & Levy (2010) distinguishes Cross-culture Psychology as, the comparative and critical study of culture effecting of the psychology in humans. Cross-culture psychology is completely concerned with the assessment of the psychological underlying of two or more cultures of assessment. Comparisons can include connections between behavior and the social norm of a society or how interrelated effects of different socio-cultural forces, of how people’s activity influences the culture. Alternatively, Cross-cultural psychology is fascinated with the mission of finding a common link between populations and the culture. Critically evaluating similarities and differences that separate cultures, cultural psychology searches to explain the psychological interaction that takes place between individuals, groups and the culture from which they come. The primary rule of cultural psychology is that human behavior is not exclusive, and that behavior will not become completely detached from its socio-cultural groundwork.

Cultural psychologists search for the philosophy that human behavior is simple, and explained through physiological, genetic, and biochemically to invent an approach in junk science (Berry, 2004). Both psychological disciplines overlap considerably because of the interaction of individuals’ culture is dominant to understanding the comparison between multiple cultures and the difference adequate to merit two different fields of Psychology.

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