Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, you should be able to:
- Describe the discipline of evolutionary psychology and discuss the interaction between culture and biology
- Critically analyse the role of culture in thought, behaviour and language
- Discuss the impact of culture on lifespan development, personality and mental health
- Summarise and describe the main methodological approaches to cross-cultural psychological research.
Indicative Module Content:
Key topics in this module will include:
• Evolutionary psychology: exploring universalist and relativist positions on the role of culture in human life.
• The relationship between culture and mental health
• Lifespan development across cultures
• Variation in social behaviour and values across different cultural settings
• The impact of culture on personality development
• Culture and cognition: can cultural factors affect basic cognitive processes?
• Language: does the language you speak affect how you see the world?
• Experience and expression of emotion across cultures