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Category: Comparative Cultural Psychology
Welcome to the introductory module for comparative cultural psychology! This module is collaboratively developed and team taught by researchers within the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Over the course of this semester, you will learn about this interdisciplinary field of study which combines approaches from developmental, cross-cultural and comparative psychology, to study uniquely human cultural diversity and the universal cognitive mechanisms that enable and constrain it. We study the interaction between culture and mind by comparing people from different social and physical environments around the world. Second, we investigate the developmental processes that lead to similarities …