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Cross-Cultural Research (Psychology)
Research that examines differences and similarities in people from different cultures and societies. Cross-cultural studies examine the relationship between human behavior and culture and typically use field data from different societies to test hypotheses about human behavior and culture. Cross-cultural research in psychology examines human behavior under different cultural conditions. Research in cross-cultural psychology can take two different approaches: the etic approach, which focuses on what things mean to individuals outside the culture, and the emic approach, which focuses on what things mean to members of the culture. Some examples of cross-cultural psychology research include differences in personality or manifestations of psychopathology across cultures. For more information, see Berry, Poortinga, and Pandey (1997).