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1 - Fundamental questions of cross-cultural psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

By
Fons J. R. van de Vijver ,
Athanasios Chasiotis  and
Seger M. Breugelmans
Edited by
Fons J. R. van de Vijver ,
Athanasios Chasiotis  and
Seger M. Breugelmans
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Affiliation:
Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and North-West University, South Africa
Athanasios Chasiotis
Affiliation:
Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Seger M. Breugelmans
Affiliation:
Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Fons J. R. van de Vijver
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Athanasios Chasiotis
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
Seger M. Breugelmans
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands
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The source of a river is often difficult to find. More often than not, rivers originate from multiple small-water sources and creeks that trickle down, often underground, until they merge in larger streams and eventually become a river. The situation is not much different for scientific disciplines. Cross-cultural psychology started about forty years ago as a separate discipline, but its intellectual parental disciplines are much older. Since its inception, the field has grown considerably. Indeed, it may even be fair to argue that, as a scientific discipline, cross-cultural psychology has come of age. There are a few journals (such as the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, the Journal of Cross Cultural Management and the International Journal of Intercultural Relations) that are entirely devoted to the field, and there are many more journals that publish cross-cultural studies on a regular basis. All mainstream psychology journals have published cross-cultural studies. In addition, there is a professional organisation that is exclusively devoted to cross-cultural psychology (the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology). Both the association and the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology were launched at about the same time forty years ago, which seems to provide sufficient institutional reasons for defining this as the beginning of the discipline.

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Fundamental Questions in Cross-Cultural Psychology , pp. 9 - 34
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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