Cultural Psychology is the study of how “culture and psyche make each other up” or mutually co-create each other (See Shweder, 1991, Thinking Through Cultures). My research in cultural psychology has focused on two questions. First, how and why do cultures vary in their moral intuitions, beliefs, and systems. Second, since I believe that emotion is the foundation of human morality, how do emotions vary across cultures?
Papers on culture and morality:
Haidt,
J., Koller, S., & Dias, M . (1993). Affect, culture, and morality, or
is it wrong to eat your dog? Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 613-628.
Haidt, J . (2001). The emotional dog and its rational tail: A social intuitionist approach to moral judgment. Psychological Review. 108, 814-834.
Shweder, R. A., & Haidt, J. (1993). The future of moral psychology: Truth, intuition, and the pluralist way. Psychological Science, 4, 360-365.
Papers on culture and emotion:
Haidt, J., Rozin, P., McCauley, C., & Imada, S . (1997). Body, psyche, and culture: The relationship of disgust to morality. Psychology and Developing Societies, 9, 107-131.
Haidt, J. & Keltner, D. (1999). Culture and emotion: Multiple methods find new faces and a gradient of recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 13, 225-266.
Shweder, R. A.,
& Haidt, J. (2000). The cultural psychology of the emotions: Ancient
and new. In M. Lewis & J. Haviland (Ed.), Handbook of emotions, 2ndedition, (pp. 397-414).
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