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Issues of ethnicity and culture are some of the
most controversial topics in the field of social science in the 21st
century. Previously, psychologists have investigated the presumably
universal aspects of psychological mechanisms and have paid little
attention to the socio-cultural contexts in which these mechanisms
take place. Our central objective is to understand the dialectical
interaction between socio-cultural frameworks and psychological
mechanisms. Our research questions and assumptions derive from cultural psychology--an emerging interdiciplinary area of
anthropology, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience--which
assumes that humans are socio-cultural beings by nature and that the
mind cannot be understood without a through consideration of
culture. Thus far, our research program has posed the following
questions: Are basic psychological processes differentiated by
culture? To what extent are basic psychological processes shaped by
historical-cultural context? What kinds of cultural practices and
socialization processes shape the indivitual mind? |
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