Psychology 582: Culture and Personality

Instructor: Shige Oishi, Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Office: 315 Gilmer Hall

Phone: 243-8989

E-mail: soishi@virginia.edu

Course Description:

This course explores various issues in the intersection of personality, social, and cultural psychology. It is designed to expose you to different research perspectives, methodologies, and most recent developments in this area. Topics covered in this course include theories of self and culture, the measurement of personality across cultures, cross-situational consistency, cultural influences on personality and emotion. After taking this course, you should know diverse arrays of personality and social psychological research conducted by cultural and cross-cultural psychologists and should be able to develop research ideas and design experiments to test your ideas.

Assignments:

1.You are supposed to read the assigned readings every week, and turn in two

questions based on the readings by 9 am on the day class meets (email). Two questions should be on different articles. Each question will be graded on a 5-point scale. 130 points in total.

2. There will be a term paper (10 –15 pages). You should choose one research topic of

your interest from the topics covered in class, conduct a thorough literature review,

and design a plausible study. 80 points. Due on December 13, 2004.

3. Class participation: 40 points

Grading

A = 220-250, A- = 215 to 219; B+ = 210 = 214; B = 200-209; B- = 195-199; C+ = 190-194; C = 180-189; C- = 175-179; D = 165-174; F < 165

Total Possible Score 250.

Week 1 (9/1): What is personality? What is culture?

Gordon Allport (1937): Ch. 1: Definitions of personality

David Matsumoto: (2000) Definitions of culture

Week2 (9/8): Culture and Personality: A Historical Perspective

Robert A. LeVine (2001): Journal of Personality, vol 69, 803-818.

Robert McRae (2000) American Behavioral Scientist, vol 44 (September Issue), p. 10-31.

Clyde Kluckhohn & Henry Murray (1948), p .35 - 48

Week 3 (9/15): Culture and Personality: Contemporary Perspectives

Gerard Saucier & Lewis R. Goldberg (2001, Journal of Personality, vol. 69, 847-879)

Shweder (1991). Thinking through culture. Ch. 3: Cultural Psychology

A. Timothy Church (2000) Journal of Personality, 68, 651-703.

Week 4 (9/22): Change and Consistency of Personality

Robert McCrae et al. (1998) J of Personality & Social Psychology, vol 74, 1041-1055

*Oishi et al. (2004). JPSP, vol 86, 460-472

Eunkook M. Suh (2002) JPSP, vol 83, 1378-1391.

Week 5 (9/28): Culture and Self (1)

Harry C. Triandis (1989). Psychological Review, vol 96, 506-520.

Hazel R. Markus & Shinobu Kitayama (1991). Psych. Review, vol 98., 224-253.

Steve J. Heine et al. (2001) JPSP, vol 81, 599-615.

Week 6 (10/6): Culture and Self (2)

Jean M. Twenge & Jennifer Crocker (2002). Psych Bull, vol 128, 371-408

Kobayashi & Greenwald (2003). JCCP, vol 34, 522-541

Kurman (2001) PSPB, vol 34, 496-510.

Week 7 (10/13): Recent Critiques on Culture and Self Research

Yohtaro Takano & Eiko Osaka (1999, Asian J of Soc. Psych., vol 2, 311-341)

Daphna Oyserman et al. (2002, Psych Bull, vol 128, 3-72)

Constantine Sedikides et al. (2003, Jan., JPSP, 84, 60-79)

Week 8 (10/20): Reactions to the Critiques

Steve J. Heine et al. (2002, JPSP, vol. 82, 903-918)

*Ulrich Schmmack et al. (in press, Personality & Social Psychology Review)

*Oishi et al. (in press, J of Research in Personality)

Hazel R. Markus & Shinobu Kitayama (2003, Psych. Inquiry, vol 14, 277-283)

Week 9 (10/27): Culture and Emotion 1

Batja Mesquita & Nico H. Frijda (1992). Psychological Bulletin, 412, 179-204.

Jeanne L. Tsai et al. (2002, Emotion, vol. 2.380-397

Mennon & Schweder (1994) a chapter in “Emotion & Culture”

Week 10 (11/3): Culture and Emotion 2

Michael Eid & Ed Diener (2001, JPSP, vol 81, p.869-885)

Michale Lewis et al. (1993, Child Development, vol. 64, 1722-1731)

Ulrich Schimmack et al. (2002) JPSP, vol 82, 582-593.

Week 11 (11/10): Behavioral Measures

Robert V. Levine et al. (2001). JCCP, vol 32., 543-560.

Sheena S. Iyengar & Mark R. Lepper (1999). JPSP, vol 76., 349-366.

Heejung Kim & Hazel R. Markus (1999). JPSP, vol 77., 785-800.

Kitayama et al. (2003, Psych. Science, vol 13, 201-206)

Week 12 (11/17): Changes in Culture, Changes in Personality?

Brent W. Roberts & Ravenna Helson (1997, JPSP, vol 72, 641-651)

Jean M. Twenge (2000, JPSP, vol 79, 1007-1021) age of anxiety

Jean M. Twenge & W. Keith Campbell (2001, PSPR, vol 5, 321-344) self-esteem

Week 13 (12/1): Developmental issues

Thomas Bouchard, Jr. (2004). Current Direction in Psychological Science, vol 13., 148-151.

Strobel et al. (2003). Molecular Psychiatry, vol 8, 371-372.

Chang et el. (1996). D4 receptor. Human Genetics, 98, 91-101.

Rothbaum et al. (2000, Child Development, vol 71, 1121-1142)

Week 14 (12/8): Theories of Culture

Dov Cohen (2001). On origin of cultural variation. Psych. Bulletin, vol 127, 451-471.

Ying-yi Hong et al. (2000). American Psychologist, vol 55, 709-720

Helen Harton & Martin Bourgeois (2003)

*provided by me

Suggested Additional Readings

General Overview on culture and personality

*Triandis & Suh (2002): Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 133-160.

*Church (2001,Dec). JP.

Individualism-Collectivism

Triandis (1995). Individualism and Collectivism. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Triandis (1996, April). American Psychologist

Cultural Psychology: Theoretical backgrounds

Jerome Bruner (1990). Acts of meaning

Richard Shweder (1991). Thinking through cultures. Harvard Press.

Michael Cole (1996). Cultural psychology. Harvard Press.

Joan Miller (1999). Cultural psychology. Psychological Science, vol 10, 85-91.

Culture and Self

Jennifer D. Campbell et al. (1996). JPSP, vol 70., 141-156.

Cousins, S. D. (1989). JPSP, 56, 124-131.

Heine, Lehman, Markus, & Kitayama (1999). Psych. Review

Shinobu Kitayama et al. (1997, JPSP, vol 76, 1245-1267)

Rhee, E., Uleman, J.S., Lee, H.K., & Roman, R. J. (1995). JPSP, 69, 142-152.

Culture and cognition

Incheol Choi et al. (1999). Psych. Bull

Richard Nisbett et al. (2001). Psych Review

Kai Ping Peng & Nisbett (1999). American Psychologist

Choi et al. (2002). JPSP

Takahiro Masuda & Nisbett (2002, JPSP)

Culture and Emotion

Jonathan Haidt & Keltner (1999, Cognition & Emotion, vol 13, 225-266)

Kitayama, Markus, & Kurokawa (2000, Cognition & Emotion)

Mesquita & Karasawa (2002, Cognition & Emotion)

Schimmack et al. (2002, Cognition & Emotion, vol. 16, 705-719)

David Watson, Clark, & Tellegen (1984, JPSP)

James Russell (1984, JPSP)

Culture and Motivation

Chirkov et al. (2003, Jan, JPSP)

Heine, Takata, & Lehman (2002) PSPB

Oishi & Diener (2001, Dec) PSPB

Oishi & Diener (2003). PSPB

Kenneth M. Sheldon et al. (2004, JCCP)

Culture and Well-Being

Diener, Oishi, & Lucas (2003). Annual Review of Psychology.

Diener & Suh (2000). Culture and Subjective well-being. MIT press.

Elliot et al. (2001, Psych. Science)

Kwan et al. (1997, JPSP)

Kang et al. (2003, PSPB)

Oishi et al. (2000). JPSP

Oishi (2002). PSPB

Suh et al. (1998). JPSP