Humans are a cultural species, constantly navigating a complex web of culturally bound practices, norms, and worldviews. This article provides a brief overview of the relatively young field of cultural psychology, which investigates the many ways psychology and culture interweave with one another. Highlighting the cultural nature of the human species, it draws upon research on cultural evolutio...

The behavioural variation among human societies is vast and unmatched in the animal world. It is unclear whether this variation is due to variation in the ecological environment or to differences in cultural traditions. Underlying this debate is a more fundamental question: is the richness of humans' behavioural repertoire due to non-cultural mechanisms, such as causal reasoning, inventiveness,...

To develop realistic computational cognitive models of human decision making, it is essential to incorporate various traditionally non-cognitive but critically important soft factors into the model development, such as cultural biases, intuition, emotion, social norms, etc. In this paper we attempt to explore human cognitive-affective interactions in strategic thinking through a neurocomputatio...

this study attempts to answer the fundamental question that how the process of the normative institutionalization (institutions linked with the values and social norms), can help for good governance and management of social, cultural, community agencies? this research investigates how the representatives how can  link the islamic consultative assembly with the social values and norms and what t...

Article history: Received 2 March 2015 Accepted 2 March 2015 Available online 25 March 2015 Accepted by X-P Chen This paper integrates social norm constructs from different disciplines into an integrated model. Norms exist in the objective social environment in the form of behavioral regularities, patterns of sanctioning, and institutionalized practices and rules. They exist subjectively in per...

► First-generation students experience a cultural mismatch in university settings. ► This mismatch leads to an aversive state that affects biological functioning. ► Independent norms produced a social class gap in cortisol and negative emotions. ► Interdependent norms eliminated the social class gap in cortisol and negative emotions. a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o American universities i...

American universities increasingly admit first-generation college students whose parents do not have 4-year degrees. Once admitted, these students tend to struggle academically, compared with continuing-generation students--students who have at least 1 parent with a 4-year degree. We propose a cultural mismatch theory that identifies 1 important source of this social class achievement gap. Four...

American universities increasingly admit first-generation college students whose parents do not have 4-year degrees. Once admitted, these students tend to struggle academically, compared with continuing-generation students—students who have at least 1 parent with a 4-year degree. We propose a cultural mismatch theory that identifies 1 important source of this social class achievement gap. Four ...