Controversies about the psychological implications of culture pervade the crosscultural management literature. When management scholars presume that psychological topics are universal, they are berated for their ethnocentrism (Boyacigiller & Adler, 1991; Wilpert, 1995). However, attempts to link psychology with culture face the dual perils of attributing psychological qualities to societies or ...

Personal writings have inspired researchers in the fields of linguistics and psychology to study the relationship between language and culture to better understand the psychology of people across different cultures. In this paper, we explore this relation by developing cross-cultural word models to identify words with cultural bias – i.e., words that are used in significantly different ways by ...

An adequate understanding of specialized terminology is a prerequisite for the mastery of core concepts across all scientific disciplines, including psychological science. In a previous article (Lilienfeld et al., 2015), we presented an annotated list of 50 widely used psychological terms that should generally be avoided, or at best used judiciously and with qualifications in select cases. Here...

As the International Psychology Bulletin (IPB) marks its 15 anniversary in 2012, IPB continues to experiment with effective, new formats to limn psychology across national borders. Under its three editors Ivan Kos (1997-2004), Senel Poyrazli (2004-2009) and now Grant Rich, IPB has progressed far beyond simple APA news, to fill clear needs in the global psychology literature--offering regional r...

The Special Issue is aimed at exploring from the theoretical and empirical points of view the concept of border in contemporary cultural psychology. Borders is an innovative multidisciplinary theoretical construct that is raising interest in human and social sciences. Different psycho-social processes can be explored and understood focusing on what happens on the border. From the perspective of...

My purpose today is to explore implications of cultural psychology for guiding educational practice, especially educational practice in settings where the children come from many different home cultures, ethnicities, and social classes. You will note that I phrased my topic as a question. Many scholars, including myself, have raised questions about how classical cultural-psychological ideas han...

The study of human growth and development throughout the life cycle, developmental psychology examines behavior from a biopsychosocial perspective. The psychology of development describes agerelated changes in behavior, personality, and physiological maturation. Growth and development are assumed to be embedded within the social environment, and normative biological processes progress through a...

The problem of cultural-historical typology is one of the most intriguing issues at the crossroads of psychology and cultural theory. This paper presents a preliminary sketch of the fourlevel-cognitive-development theory to look at this issue from a new perspective. According to the model suggested, three cultural types are marked out: prehistoric and hunter-gatherer culture, early theoretical ...