Research: How Cultural Differences Can Impact Global Teams
The authors explore how diversity affects the performance and creativity of remote teams, distinguishing between personal and contextual diversity. They find that contextual diversity, which ...
Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A retrospective
The X-Culture research program is now bearing real fruit in providing tests of hypotheses before taking them to more complex field settings (e.g., Jang, 2017; Jimenez et al., 2017) and deconstructing the different effects of input and process variables more precisely (e.g., Taras et al., 2019). It is an important contribution and will allow us ...
Cultural Diversity and Mental Health: Considerations for Policy and
Ways forward. Mainstream mental health systems are increasingly acknowledging the intersection of cultural diversity. As an example, the provision of the cultural formulation interview in the DSM-5 is a positive step especially as it seeks to explore cultural identity, conceptualization of illness, psychosocial stressors, vulnerability, and resilience as well as the cultural features of the ...
Hofstede's Six Cultural Dimensions—and Why They Matter
Learn how Geert Hofstede and his colleagues developed a theory to explain the differences between cultures along six dimensions: power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and indulgence. See examples of how these dimensions impact people's values, behaviors, and attitudes in various societies.
Stereotypes of adolescence: Cultural differences, consequences, and
Recent research that uses an interdisciplinary approach integrating developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and neuroscience has demonstrated the unique role of teen stereotypes in shaping cultural and individual differences in adolescent development (Qu et al., 2021). The current evidence also points to several important directions for ...
Cultural determinants of health, cross-cultural research and global
Social determinants, including cultural factors, significantly impact individuals' health beliefs, behaviors, help-seeking patterns, and health care utilization. Recognizing and accounting for cultural differences is crucial as the meanings and understanding of health, illness, and well-being are shaped by culture. This chapter provides an in-depth understanding of cultural determinants of ...
Cultural variations in perceptions and reactions to social norm
1. Introduction. Social norms, which are "behaviors of group members that act as implicit rules, considered to be both descriptive of what group members are and prescriptive (injunctive) of how they should be" (Fiske, 2004, p. 484), are influenced by culture and play a crucial role in shaping cultural differences.Social science has come a long way in expanding its research into other ...
Cultural Differences
Learn how cultural differences affect people's beliefs, behavior, and social institutions across the world. Explore the methods and findings of psychological research on cultural differences in various domains, such as self-definition, interpersonal relations, and social perception.
Comparative Culturology and Cross-Cultural Psychology: How Comparing
To help explain why researchers in CC and in mainstream CCP tend to define and measure their constructs in different ways, three differences between these fields are especially important: (1) Mainstream CCP treats individuals living in diverse societies or cultural communities as its focal objects of study, whereas CC treats societies or ...
Considering the whole person: A guide to culturally responsive
Culture is multifaceted, characterized by a shared system of meaning among groups of individuals transmitted through generations (Betancourt and Lopez, 1993).Psychological research is a powerful means to understand our communities and promote global wellness; yet, research is ultimately a cultural practice itself, rooted in western values that emphasize empirical knowledge over other ways of ...
(PDF) Addressing Cultural Differences: Effective Communication
Subsequently, this research qualitatively analyzes three effective communication techniques -- cross-cultural communication training, the establishment of effective feedback, and the use of remote ...
Cross-Cultural Research Methodology In Psychology
Learn how to compare psychological variables across cultures and identify cultural sources of differences. Explore methodological issues, such as bias, equivalence, and ethical considerations in cross-cultural research.
Understanding Cultural Differences
This chapter explores the concept of culture and its impact on intercultural encounters. It defines culture as a system of symbols, ideas, values, and behaviors that distinguish groups of people and influence their thinking, feeling, and acting.
Full article: Workplace diversity and intercultural communication: A
1.2. Cultural diversity in the workplace. The meaning of the term "diversity" has evolved over time from an initial focus on racial differences, to include sex, political affiliation, cultural affinity, gender identity, religion, and sexual orientation in 2017 (Roberson, Ryan, & Ragins, Citation 2017).Diversity has become a trending topic in literature (Borjas, Citation 2006; Neault ...
Establishing Cultural Integrity in Qualitative Research:
How cross-cultural research can be framed according to the traditional cultural values of a particular research setting to achieve cultural integrity. An illustrative example of how cultural integrity was achieved by giving due attention to the principles of cultural relevance, contextuality, appropriateness, mutual respect, and flexibility.
Cultures and Persons: Characterizing National and Other Types of
Cultural Variations. In developing a conceptual framework for the study of culture, psychologists have faced a series of problems. Firstly, the traditional focus of psychology has been upon understanding the behavior of individuals, and the behavior of these individuals has mostly been studied in a highly restricted set of national-cultural circumstances (Henrich et al., 2010).
How Corporate Cultures Differ Around the World
Learn how culture can shape and influence an organization's viability and performance, and how cultural differences can affect global teams. Explore the integrated culture framework and the online ...
Methodological concerns underlying a lack of evidence for cultural
Other approaches to operationalizing measures of cultural differences via CF ST 10, tightness and looseness 30, or individualistic and collectivistic cultures 31 may provide better alternatives to ...
Interculturalism and Informed Consent: Respecting Cultural Differences
Research on schizophrenia, migration, and inbreeding, all taboo concepts for this particular tribe, was conducted using their genetic samples. ... a set of academic and interpersonal skills that allows individuals to increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities within, among, and between groups - a ...
Cultural Differences in Psychology
However, this assumption has been challenged by those studying cross-cultural psychology, a field of research which analyses cultural biases in the way other research is carried out, and the influence of our society on the way we think and behave. Researchers have discovered that subtle differences between cultures mean that the findings of an experiment in the U.S. cannot necessarily be ...
Reimagining LGBTIQ+ research
Contributions focusing on section IV: cross-cultural differences. In the final section, four articles assess how differences in socio-political climate affect LGBTIQ+ individuals around the globe. In the first article of this section, Barrientos et al. provide an overview of research on the LGBTIQ+ population in Latin America. They provide ...
Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Parenting
This article reviews contemporary research on cross-cultural similarities and differences in parenting. The article begins by providing a definition of culture and how both parenting and culture can change over historical time. ... Within-culture differences can be a function of socioeconomic status (SES), parent or child gender, parent or ...
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The authors explore how diversity affects the performance and creativity of remote teams, distinguishing between personal and contextual diversity. They find that contextual diversity, which ...
The X-Culture research program is now bearing real fruit in providing tests of hypotheses before taking them to more complex field settings (e.g., Jang, 2017; Jimenez et al., 2017) and deconstructing the different effects of input and process variables more precisely (e.g., Taras et al., 2019). It is an important contribution and will allow us ...
Ways forward. Mainstream mental health systems are increasingly acknowledging the intersection of cultural diversity. As an example, the provision of the cultural formulation interview in the DSM-5 is a positive step especially as it seeks to explore cultural identity, conceptualization of illness, psychosocial stressors, vulnerability, and resilience as well as the cultural features of the ...
Learn how Geert Hofstede and his colleagues developed a theory to explain the differences between cultures along six dimensions: power distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, long-term orientation, and indulgence. See examples of how these dimensions impact people's values, behaviors, and attitudes in various societies.
Recent research that uses an interdisciplinary approach integrating developmental psychology, cultural psychology, and neuroscience has demonstrated the unique role of teen stereotypes in shaping cultural and individual differences in adolescent development (Qu et al., 2021). The current evidence also points to several important directions for ...
Social determinants, including cultural factors, significantly impact individuals' health beliefs, behaviors, help-seeking patterns, and health care utilization. Recognizing and accounting for cultural differences is crucial as the meanings and understanding of health, illness, and well-being are shaped by culture. This chapter provides an in-depth understanding of cultural determinants of ...
1. Introduction. Social norms, which are "behaviors of group members that act as implicit rules, considered to be both descriptive of what group members are and prescriptive (injunctive) of how they should be" (Fiske, 2004, p. 484), are influenced by culture and play a crucial role in shaping cultural differences.Social science has come a long way in expanding its research into other ...
Learn how cultural differences affect people's beliefs, behavior, and social institutions across the world. Explore the methods and findings of psychological research on cultural differences in various domains, such as self-definition, interpersonal relations, and social perception.
To help explain why researchers in CC and in mainstream CCP tend to define and measure their constructs in different ways, three differences between these fields are especially important: (1) Mainstream CCP treats individuals living in diverse societies or cultural communities as its focal objects of study, whereas CC treats societies or ...
Culture is multifaceted, characterized by a shared system of meaning among groups of individuals transmitted through generations (Betancourt and Lopez, 1993).Psychological research is a powerful means to understand our communities and promote global wellness; yet, research is ultimately a cultural practice itself, rooted in western values that emphasize empirical knowledge over other ways of ...
Subsequently, this research qualitatively analyzes three effective communication techniques -- cross-cultural communication training, the establishment of effective feedback, and the use of remote ...
Learn how to compare psychological variables across cultures and identify cultural sources of differences. Explore methodological issues, such as bias, equivalence, and ethical considerations in cross-cultural research.
This chapter explores the concept of culture and its impact on intercultural encounters. It defines culture as a system of symbols, ideas, values, and behaviors that distinguish groups of people and influence their thinking, feeling, and acting.
1.2. Cultural diversity in the workplace. The meaning of the term "diversity" has evolved over time from an initial focus on racial differences, to include sex, political affiliation, cultural affinity, gender identity, religion, and sexual orientation in 2017 (Roberson, Ryan, & Ragins, Citation 2017).Diversity has become a trending topic in literature (Borjas, Citation 2006; Neault ...
How cross-cultural research can be framed according to the traditional cultural values of a particular research setting to achieve cultural integrity. An illustrative example of how cultural integrity was achieved by giving due attention to the principles of cultural relevance, contextuality, appropriateness, mutual respect, and flexibility.
Cultural Variations. In developing a conceptual framework for the study of culture, psychologists have faced a series of problems. Firstly, the traditional focus of psychology has been upon understanding the behavior of individuals, and the behavior of these individuals has mostly been studied in a highly restricted set of national-cultural circumstances (Henrich et al., 2010).
Learn how culture can shape and influence an organization's viability and performance, and how cultural differences can affect global teams. Explore the integrated culture framework and the online ...
Other approaches to operationalizing measures of cultural differences via CF ST 10, tightness and looseness 30, or individualistic and collectivistic cultures 31 may provide better alternatives to ...
Research on schizophrenia, migration, and inbreeding, all taboo concepts for this particular tribe, was conducted using their genetic samples. ... a set of academic and interpersonal skills that allows individuals to increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities within, among, and between groups - a ...
However, this assumption has been challenged by those studying cross-cultural psychology, a field of research which analyses cultural biases in the way other research is carried out, and the influence of our society on the way we think and behave. Researchers have discovered that subtle differences between cultures mean that the findings of an experiment in the U.S. cannot necessarily be ...
Contributions focusing on section IV: cross-cultural differences. In the final section, four articles assess how differences in socio-political climate affect LGBTIQ+ individuals around the globe. In the first article of this section, Barrientos et al. provide an overview of research on the LGBTIQ+ population in Latin America. They provide ...
This article reviews contemporary research on cross-cultural similarities and differences in parenting. The article begins by providing a definition of culture and how both parenting and culture can change over historical time. ... Within-culture differences can be a function of socioeconomic status (SES), parent or child gender, parent or ...