Research in cultural psychology over the last three decades has revealed the profound
influence of culture on cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes sha** individuals …

Cultural psychology—the research field focusing on the mutual constitution of culture and
the mind—has made great strides by documenting robust cultural variations in how people …

Social science research has highlighted “honor” as a central value driving social behavior in
Mediterranean societies, which requires individuals to develop and protect a sense of their …

Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously.
We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the …

Psychology, and cross-cultural psychology (CCP) in particular, plays a pivotal role in
understanding the intricate relationship between culture and human behavior. This paper …

Five years after the beginning of the COVID pandemic, one thing is clear: The East Asian
countries of Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea outperformed the United States in responding …

The realization that most behavioral science research focuses on cultures labeled as
WEIRD—Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (Arnett, 2008; Henrich et …

Initiatives in international development and behavioral science rely predominantly on the
independent models of the self and agency that are prevalent in individualist Western …

Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has taken a massive toll on
human life worldwide. The case of the United States—the world's largest economy—is …

Mediterranean societies are often labeled as “honor cultures,” in contrast with presumed
“dignity” and “face” cultures of Anglo-Western and East Asian societies. We measured these …