Psychology Explains How Cultural Differences Influence Human Behavior

The term 'culture' can be defined as the characteristics of a group of people, from attitudes to values, transmitted from generation to generation.

The cross-cultural psychology studies, by means of etic or emic approach, the way culture influences our life as a whole or the idea of ethnocentrism, which so often leads to biases.

The main topics in cross-cultural psychology are the following:

• Emotions
• Language acquisition
• Child development
• Personality
• Social behavior
• Family and social relationships/

The main difference between the cross-cultural psychology and the other branches of psychology refers to the fact that cross-cultural psychology analyses the effects of culture on human behavior, whereas the other types of psychology focus more on how people themselves influence the human behavior.