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2023 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Key growth points in cross-cultural psychology
Convener and Chair: P.B. Smith, UK
2023.1 Social cognition in socio-cultural context, Y. Kashima, University of Melbourne,
Melbourne, Australia
Social cognition has been a dominant research tradition in social psychology since the 1980’s.
However, despite its original promise, social cognition has remained individualistic in its
metatheory and subject matter until cross-cultural research as well as the research on intergroup
behavior among others encouraged the field to take seriously the socio-cultural embeddedness of
social cognitive processes. To justify this claim, I will review the recent work on culture and social
cognition with some reference to the intergroup relations literature, and point to promising
metatheoretical developments as well as research areas in social cognition.
2023.2 Culture and self, C. Kagitçibasi, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Cross-cultural research provides fertile ground for contributions to conceptualizations about the
self. Given the emphasis on the individual in mainstream psychology, the collective aspects of the
self are often ignored. Yet self, as a product of social interaction, is infinitely bound with others
and thus with culture. In particular "interpersonal distance" dimension, when combined with
"agency" dimension sheds light on understanding diversity as well as uniformity across cultures.
Development of the different types of self in different familial and socio-cultural contexts and
global changes in these contexts are key issues here. Such conceptualization promises to serve as a
corrective to uni-cultural perspectives on the self.
2023.3 Recent developments in personality and culture, A.T. Church, Washington State
University, WA, USA
Recent developments in the study of personality across cultures are examined. Topics and issues
include the current status of indigenous and cross-cultural research on personality structure,
lexical studies of personality traits, implications of cultural psychology perspectives for the study
of personality, recent efforts to compare personality profiles across cultures, and methods and
levels of analysis. Suggestions for future research are offered.
2023.4 Culture-level studies in cross-cultural psychology: Unpackaging a nebulous construct,
M.H. Bond, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Culture is an integrated set of contexts for socialization. Distal structures, such as political,
economic, legal, and enforcement institutions, constrain the socialization activities of the primary,
proximal agencies of family, school, and work place. The affordances characterizing the distal
structures then constrain the interpersonal exchanges in the proximal agencies of socialization, as
culture members strive to negotiate security, sustenance, sociality, status and meaning with their
in-groups. These socialization forces combine with biological predispositions to produce the
psychological phenomena we study. I will present a model of these hypothesized processes, and
link it to prior research and future studies.
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