Assignment Task: Culture shapes our feelings, behaviors, and thoughts (ABCs of social psychology), influencing not only how we see ourselves but also how we see and interact with others, both within and outside of our own culture.
For this Assignment, you examine culture and its influence in your life.
Reading:
Biswas-Diener, R. & Thin, N. (2025). Culture. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba textbook series: Psychology. DEF publishers.
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Submit a 300- to 500-word paper, based on Biswas-Diener and Thin (2025), in which you:
Describe one example of a visible cultural difference and one example of a psychological cultural difference between your culture and another culture.
Identify the four features of culture and provide an example of each feature.
Describe your self-construal and explain what that looks like in your daily life. Be specific and provide an example. Need Assignment Help?
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