Question

Dr. joseph thinks that most people are generally trusting of strangers. he did a study at his university in the united states to test this idea, and the results confirmed his hypothesis. dr. joseph is discussing the results of this study with a friend who is a psychology researcher in china, dr. ming. dr. ming thinks that people in eastern cultures, such as china, are less trusting of strangers than people in western cultures, such as the united states. dr. joseph and dr. ming decide to run a second study where they have a group of participants in china and a group of participants in the united states both complete the task used in dr. joseph’s study. this second study is an example of ______________.

Answer 1

The second study that Dr. Joseph and Dr. Ming is going to conduct is called a cultural psychology. From the word culture, it is trying to pin point people who came from other countries or places that shaped their attitudes, well being and intellect because of the places that they are in or born. What the cultural psychology is trying to point out is how does people from other culture behave or how there well being has been shaped or created. It is like how Dr. Joseph and Dr. Ming trying to find out how will the two different group of people in different culture, respond to a particular problem.