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Reconsidering Culture and Self

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The interplay of culture and self has been one of the most active areas of research in self and identity. It has provided a number of theoretical concepts and research methodologies that have advanced the psychological understanding about self processes. This paper provides a concise review of the field’s underlying assumptions, and points to its contemporary issues and future directions. In particular, we begin by reviewing the work of Triandis Psychological Review, 96, 506–520, (1989) and Markus and Kitayama Psychological Review, 98, 224–253, (1991), point to questions about the content and process surrounding culture and self, and end with a description of a new research program that expands on the current culture and self literature by posing a broader question of the cultural conception of what it means to be human and the interplay between humanness conception and self conception.

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  1. Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia

    Yoshihisa Kashima

  2. Department of Psychology, The University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Pete Koval

  3. School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Emiko S. Kashima

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Kashima, Y., Koval, P. & Kashima, E.S. Reconsidering Culture and Self. Psychol Stud 56, 12–22 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-011-0071-4

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