Culture and Mind

The department's teachers have a deep interest in how thoughts and emotions are formed and influenced by society and culture. Richard Klein believes that the Neolithic revolution was achieved by changing the genetic change of cognitive ability. Ian Hodder explores the cognitive changes brought about by new forms of social and technological innovation. Angela Garcia is looking at the emotional landscape of the poisoning of the Hispano family. Tanya Marie Luhrmann studied various psychological theories and various spiritual practices, changed the psychological experience of prayer, and changed mental illness. Thomas Brom Hansen uses psychoanalysis theory to understand the violence of the Mumbai party faction

The central proposition of cultural psychology is not only "culturally important" but also that culture and thinking "promote each other" (Shweder, 1991). Culture and ideas interact and influence each other, so they are not regarded as the ultimate source of each other. Here we emphasize the cultural definition of combining faith and practice. Indeed, Markus and Hamedani (2007) advocates a socio-cultural approach that encourages culture to be regarded as a concept and entity in this area. Culture therefore includes the meanings, concepts and attitudes in the "brain", cultural products, institutional practices and systems, and interpersonal relationships that exist in the "world". We believe that the rapid change in China is the best understanding from the perspective of mutual constitution.

The main purpose of cultural psychology is that thinking and culture can not be separated and are mutually composed. In other words, people are influenced by culture and their culture is shaped by them. Richard Shwider, one of the main supporters in this field, wrote as follows. , Self and feelings. "