Culture and Personality Revisited

Recently, attempts have been made to employ American trait psychology across cultures. From the perspective of contemporary psychological anthropology, these efforts appear likely to repeat certain fallacies of the culture and personality approach of the 1930s, such as the reification of concepts in...

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Published in:The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) 2000-09, Vol.44 (1), p.32-40
Main Author: BOCK, PHILIP K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Causality
Crosscultural Analysis
Culture
Fallacies
History
Methodological Problems
Personality
Personality Traits
Population
Psychological Research
Psychology
Reification
Research trends
Social Anthropology
Sociological research
Theoretical Problems
U.S.A
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Summary:Recently, attempts have been made to employ American trait psychology across cultures. From the perspective of contemporary psychological anthropology, these efforts appear likely to repeat certain fallacies of the culture and personality approach of the 1930s, such as the reification of concepts into causal entities and the use of mean scores to characterize and compare populations (and even nations). These dangers are noted, and some recent developments in psychological anthropology are briefly discussed.
ISSN:0002-7642
1552-3381
DOI:10.1177/00027640021956071