The Introductory Psychology Text and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Beyond Ekman, Whorf, and Biased I.Q. Tests

Abstract

chapter: concerned with cross-cultural psychology's place in introductory psychology texts / the beginning psychology students' exposure to culturally mediated variations in human behaviour is generally explained by a rather narrow selection of many possible topics /// argue that introductory texts could easily go beyond such predictable coverage, and that the authors of beginning texts should consider it a challenge to consult the contemporary cross-cultural literature for more interesting and timely examples when explaining cultural variations in behaviour to students taking the beginning course in Psychology (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved)