CROSS-CULTURAL

• Methodological processes in Cultural Psychology

  Involve qualitative methods such as ethnography, observations, and discourse analysis obtained from the way of life and manner of communication in that culture
• Virgilio G. Enriquez: 'Pagbabangong-Dangal: Indigenous Psychology & Cultural Empowerment'
• Research in Cultural Psychology

  • Study of one tribe in the Philippines using qualitative methods
  • Observed practices of weaving in an indigenous Ilocano community
• Cultural Psychology


  Culture is seen as inside an individual in an important way, influencing thought processes, behaviors, and social interactions
• Culture

  • Attitudes including beliefs, values, and general knowledge
  • Behaviors such as norms, roles, customs, traditions, habits, practices, and fashions
  • Symbol which signifies things and ideas, or how people put meaning into it
• Indigenous Psychology


  Scientific study of the ethnicity, society, and culture of a people, applying indigenous knowledge rooted in the people’s ethnic heritage and consciousness
• Symbol in the Philippines

  • Muslims give importance to the moon to determine the date of Ramadan
• Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand the different concepts about cross-cultural, cultural and indigenous psychology

  2. Discuss the nature of Sikolohiyang Pilipino as an indigenous psychology

  3. Understand how Filipino psyches are shaped by our cultural contexts
• Global Indigenous Psychology


  • An intellectual movement based on a reaction against the colonization/domination of Western psychology
  • The need for non-Western cultures to solve their local problems through indigenous practices and applications
  • The need for a non-Western culture to recognize itself in the constructs and practices of psychology
  • The need to use indigenous philosophies and concepts to generate theories of global psychological discourse
• Cross-cultural Psychology


  Culture is seen as being outside of and apart from the individual, focusing on how culture influences thought processes and behavior across various cultures
• Research in Cross-cultural Psychology

  • Investigation of how Asian women are more conservative than French or American women
  • Dark Triad Traits, Social Position, and Personality: A Cross-Cultural Study involving participants from Europe, America, Africa, and Asia
• Methodological processes in Cross-cultural Psychology

  Carry out psychometric properties established in one culture to one or more other cultures for cross-cultural comparison, using tests with direct numerical variables
• Psychology, like any other language game, is a living conversation, for which translation is the key to the continuation and transformation of the discourse. As Western psychology is translated into other cultures, the more we make sure that the influence is going both ways, and the more we allow conflicting voices to inhabit the terms we use in psychology, the more likely it is that alternative ways of doing psychological science will emerge