The following article deals with equivalence as a specific quality criterion concerning cross cultural research in psychology and provides an overview for this topic. The comparability of constructs as well as of data is analyzed. For this, the different levels of equivalence are regarded, e.g., translation equivalence and others. Classical as well as modern methods for the testing and guarante...

For the human species, adaptability has been the key to success in a wide variety of different ecologies. From the icy coasts and plains of the arctic to the jungles and savannahs of the equator, we encounter families and communities of people living recognizably human, yet strikingly different, lifestyles. Nowhere is this plasticity more evident than in social development, as children grow and...

Studies primarily describe cultural competence training in different educational settings, including nursing, social work, pediatric, and child psychology programs (Culhane-Pera et al., 2000; Flores, Gee, and Kastner, 2000; Freed, 1998; Gamble, 2000; Lindquist, 1990; Rankin and Kappy, 1993; Ricardo and Holden, 1994; Salcido and Garcia, 1997; Sublette and Trappler, 2000). Some discussed differen...

Mainland China has undergone profound changes dating back to the nineteenth century, including a contemporary period of rapid modernization that began in the 1980s. The result has been dramatic social, cultural, and economic shifts impacting the daily lives of Chinese people. In this paper, we explore the psychological implications of sociocultural transformation in China, emphasizing two centr...

Modeling work suggests that population size affects cultural evolution such that larger populations can be expected to have richer and more complex cultural repertoires than smaller populations. Empirical tests of this hypothesis, however, have yielded conflicting results. Here, we report a study in which we investigated whether the subsistence toolkits of small-scale food-producers are influen...

Our species is characterized by a great degree of cultural variation, both within and between populations. Understanding how group-level patterns of culture emerge from individual-level behaviour is a long-standing question in the biological and social sciences. We develop a simulation model capturing demographic and cultural dynamics relevant to human cultural evolution, focusing on the interf...

Since the early 1980s, psychologists and survey methodologists have made considerable progress in understanding the cognitive and communicative processes underlying survey responding To date this research has paid limited attention to cultural differences. However, there is increasing evidence that there are cultural differences in how information is processed (for a review, see Oyserman & Lee,...

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Previous research has demonstrated that people from East Asian cultural backgrounds make broader, more complex causal attributions than do people from Western cultural backgrounds. In the current research, the authors hypothesized that East Asians also would be aware of a broader, more complex distribution of consequences of events. Four studies assessed cultural differences in perceptions of t...