Psychologists have a recurrent concern that socially desirable responding (SDR) is a form of
response distortion that compromises the validity of self‐report measures, especially in high …

Theoretical and methodological developments guided by a cognitive theory of culture have
advanced our understanding of cultural processes over the past 40 years. The theoretical …

Winner of the 2019 Society for Anthropological Sciences Book Prize This book engages with
the issue of how culture is incorporated into individuals' lives, a question that has long …

Cultural consonance is the degree to which individuals approximate, in their own beliefs and
behaviors, the prototypes for belief and behavior encoded in cultural models. Low cultural …

Most cross-cultural qualitative research on depression has been descriptive, documenting
symptoms and explanatory models. There is a lack of qualitative research testing theoretical …

Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that provides step-by-step
instruction for collecting and analyzing cultural data. This compact guide explains complex …

Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, but little research explores non-Western
men's cultural experiences of body image and what affects their risks of disordered eating …

Prior studies have suggest that religiosity mitigates symptoms of depression. However,
population-based data in South America are limited. This study determines the prevalence …

The relationship between the individuals and the culture is often taken for granted but not
understood very clearly. In order to understand the relationship between the culture and …

Describing the link between culture (as a phenomenon pertaining to social aggregates) and
the beliefs and behaviors of individuals has eluded satisfactory resolution; however …