Culture in the Blender

This semester, I’ve arranged to audit a very exciting-sounding class: Cultural Psychology. The course description is

Centers on cross-cultural study of substantive areas such as personality, motivation, socialization, interpersonal behavior, psychological environments, cognition and cognitive development, ethnocentrism and stereotypes, and visual perception; emphasis on methodological limitations and contributions of cross-cultural study; and discussion of current problems and research. Same as ANTH 373. Prerequisite: Six hours of psychology or anthropology, or consent of instructor.

I’ve only taken one anthropology class before, but cross-cultural psychology is something I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about! I’ve only really read that article by Markus & Kitayama for my Honors, but that’s it. Graduate student automatic consent ftw!

The professor’s work centers on people who have multiple enculturalizations. Even just reading her publications could be great! I’d go search for them right now if it wasn’t time to go to bed. A completely different world awaits tomorrow – learning image processing in MATLAB. Cultural psychology will have to wait – but hopefully, not for long.