Sumários
6 outubro 2026, 13:00
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Elena Piccinelli
This class covered the following content:
- The linguistic relativity hypothesis and the second language effect: How does language affect perceptions and behaviors?
- Socialization processes and self-construals
- Independent and interdependent self-construals
- Basic definitions and functioning
- The social orientation hypothesis
- Measurement issues
- Collectivistic vs. individualistic cultures
29 setembro 2026, 13:30
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Emerson Do Bú
Holistic and analytic thinking. Cultural differences in attention, categorisation and attribution, and what these differences do and do not mean. Groups confirmed and blog topics assigned.
28 setembro 2026, 15:30
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Elena Piccinelli
The following topics were covered in this class:
1. Culture and other key concepts (society, ethnicity, race, religion, nation, personality, human nature)
2. How do we study culture? Cultural universals, emic vs. etic perspectives
3. Holistic vs. analytic cognition
4. Group assignment (instructions, definition of groups and topics)
28 setembro 2026, 13:00
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Elena Piccinelli
The following topics were covered in this class:
1. Culture and other key concepts (society, ethnicity, race, religion, nation, personality, human nature)
2. How do we study culture? Cultural universals, emic vs. etic perspectives
3. Holistic vs. analytic cognition
4. Group assignment (instructions, definition of groups and topics)
22 setembro 2026, 15:30
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Emerson Do Bú
Definitions of culture. Culture, nationality, ethnicity and race. Objective and subjective culture. A short history of the discipline. The WEIRD problem. Cross-cultural, cultural and indigenous psychology. Emic and etic approaches.
In-class activity. Show of hands on everyday norms in the students' countries, and the Müller-Lyer illusion tested on a slide.
Readings after class
Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2–3), 61–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X0999152X
