**Sept 13. Week 4: Cultural Psychology**
In which we find out that social psychology effects established just on American college undergraduates should not be taken as indicators of human nature writ large, and we discuss two established dimensions along which cultures vary psychologically: individualism/collectivism and relational mobility.
**Readings**
Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science. *Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33*(2-3), 111-135.
(You don’t need to read the commentaries on the article)
Oyserman, D., Coon, H. M., & Kemmelmeier, M. (2002). Rethinking individualism and collectivism: Evaluation of theoretical assumptions and meta‐analyses. *Psychological Bulletin, 128*, 1773‐1775.
Schug, J., Yuki, M., & Maddux, W. (2010). Relational mobility explains between-and within-culture differences in self-disclosure to close friends. *Psychological Science, 21*(10), 1471-1478.
From Edge.org, a brief essay, “The Culture Cycle” by Hazel Markus and Alana Conner:
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11527
For the ambitious (optional):
Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (1991). Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. *Psychological Review, 98*(2), 224-253.
