This textbook of cross-cultural or cultural psychology clarifies exciting questions about
differences and similarities between cultures: Are people of other cultural origins different
from us? Or are similar deep structures of thinking feeling and acting hidden beneath the
surface of the exotic or threatening foreign? But why do conspicuous differences in behaviour
occur and how can they be explained? - In our globalised world in which members of different
cultures meet more and more frequently due to economic relations internet communication and
migration movements these topics are increasingly discussed emotionally - cultural psychology
responds to this with scientifically sound contributions. In addition it sees itself as an
interdisciplinary discipline that critically examines the supposedly universal psychological
laws of perception feeling and thinking that have been established in Western culture.
