Cultural Psychology

Overview

Cultural psychology is the study of how culture and the mind shape one another. It examines the ways in which shared beliefs, values, practices, and social meanings influence how people perceive the world, regulate their emotions, form a sense of self, and behave. Drawing on psychology together with disciplines such as anthropology and sociology, the field treats psychological processes not as universal and fixed but as deeply intertwined with the cultural contexts in which they develop. This perspective helps explain why people from different cultural backgrounds may understand and respond to the same situation in different ways, and it informs more culturally sensitive approaches to research and clinical practice. Research relevant to this topic includes qualitative work on how cultural ideas of honour and shame function in moral and emotional identity regulation, such as an interpretative phenomenological analysis of young British South Asian women in the diaspora. As a topic within psychotherapy practice and research, cultural psychology connects an understanding of cultural influences with the practice of mental health care. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to cultural psychology and the broader study of culture and the mind.

Research published in this journal

2 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.

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