Different Strokes: How Child-Rearing Patterns Differs in Individualist and Collectivist Cultures
The emphasis on self-reliance and individualism that is characteristic of American culture is uncommon in Asian cultures where who you are is dependent on the social context. These differences are reflected in child-r..
Different Strokes: How Influential is the Shared Family Environment?
The environment is the nature portion of the human equation-those factors along with genetics that shape the emerging individual. From the time of Freud, it was assumed that the shared family environment was primarily ..
Different Strokes: Importance of Peer Influence on Development
Peers tend to exert influence over what young people wear, the music they like, and how they want to spend their free time. Most teens admire their parents and retain many of their basic values but clash over curfew ..
Different Strokes: Influence of Culture on Latino Relationships
Attitudes and motivations are created in a context of a culture. Angela Ginorio illustrates how traditional Latinos or Latinas structure a conversation before making a request that could place both parties in an awkwar..
Different Strokes: Mitigating the Distrust Associated with Prejudice
Most people would like to believe that they're not prejudiced, that they don't hold unjustified negative attitudes toward the members of out groups. Mahzarin Banaji illustrates how the use of the Implicit Association..
Different Strokes: Prenatal Environment, The
Nurture begins in the womb as the fetus is exposed to various types of nutrition and agents that are potentially toxic. The significance of the prenatal environment was underscored in a longitudinal study of 10,000 fam..
Different Strokes: TRIOS-African American Cultural Patterns
Cultural patterns echo from one generation to the next. Psychologist James Jones uses the acronym "TRIOS" to describe the characteristics that link Black Americans to their African roots.
Diversity of Language
Linguist, author and university professor Noam Chomsky explains that the variety of languages in the United States has declined very sharply in the last two hundred years. "When the colonists first came here from Europe,..
Early Therapy
Professor of psychiatry and author Kay Redfield Jamison talks about her early therapy experiences and discusses the impact of medications she was taking. "I was in and out of being very psychotic," Dr. Jamison recalls. "..
Embarrassment
Psychologist and author Paul Ekman talks about embarrassment, which he claims does not qualify as a basic emotion because it doesn't have a universal signal. Dr. Ekman notes that embarrassment can be flattering or unflat..