Cultural variation may be evoked through the interaction between domain-specific psychological mechanisms and environmental conditions ). One such constellation of mechanisms is the behavioral immune system, a cluster of ...
High-fidelity copying is critical to the acquisition of culture. However, young children’s high-fidelity imitation can result in overimitation, the copying of instrumentally irrelevant actions. We present a series of studies investigating whether adults ...
The effects of culture on impression formation are widely documented but poorly understood. Priming independent and interdependent self-construals, and focusing on particular stages of impression formation, could help remedy this because such self-...
Emotional expression and experience are dynamic processes that vary within and between individuals of different cultural groups (). The present study sought to compare self-reports of processes related to emotion ...
The Duchenne marker has been proposed as a universal marker of smile authenticity. However, ) found that, whereas Canadians typically show the Duchenne marker when posing happiness, Gabonese do not. We therefore ...
This paper studies whether and how information and communication technology (ICT) changes self-construal and cultural values in a developing country. Ethiopian children were given laptops in the context of an ICT for development scheme. We compared ...
Inspired by “Mother or Wife” African dilemma tales, the present research utilizes a cultural psychology perspective to explore the dynamic, mutual constitution of personal relationship tendencies and cultural-ecological affordances for neoliberal ...
The Latino population in the United States is rapidly increasing. This increase produces cultural change, and the cultural inertia model suggests that cultural change is resisted if one’s cultural identity must change. The present study investigates the ...