Cultural Influences on Autobiographical Memory
Autobiographical memory, the recollection of personal experiences and events from one's life, is shaped by the cultural context in which...
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Elina Halonen
Mar 510 min
The Invisible Influence: How Culture Shapes Healthcare
Imagine a world where the very concept of health is different from what you know. A world where the mind and body are seen as...
Elina Halonen
Sep 27, 20201 min
Spotlight: Tight-loose cultures
In this series of posts, we collate and curate the best content to shed light on different areas of cultural psychology. Read Tight or...
Merle van den Akker
Sep 25, 20204 min
Perspectives of Privilege in Behavioural Science Research
When it comes to conducting research, especially behavioural research, it is important to be aware of your own biases.
Elina Halonen
Sep 24, 20203 min
Coming soon: Mind in Context podcast
An increasingly globalised and urbanised world means our planet is getting smaller. Despite our common human nature, we are encountering...
Elina Halonen
Sep 23, 20204 min
Around the world in 7 books
These books will help you understand yourself and others from different cultural backgrounds.
Elina Halonen
Sep 23, 20201 min
WEIRDness in design - can empathy bridge the gap?
Following from the WEIRD challenge in psychology, design also has issues...
Elina Halonen
Sep 23, 20201 min
WEIRD is far from an outdated problem in psychology
I recently listened to a podcast where psychology's WEIRD issue was dismissed as an "outdated concern".
Elina Halonen
Sep 23, 20208 min
Does “irrationality” travel? Why applied behavioural science needs to consider cultural context
First in a series of articles focused on the ways in which factors such as cultural context influence individual decision making.
Elina Halonen
Sep 23, 20206 min
The reason why we know so little about culture and decision-making
As applied behavioural science grows in popularity around the world, we are at a point where we need to consider how can be applied in...
Elina Halonen
Sep 23, 20202 min
Diversity in behavioural science matters because we’re mostly a bunch of WEIRDos
It's not just the people we study, but the scientists themselves who are WEIRD.
Merle van den Akker
Sep 15, 20203 min
But Would It Replicate in the Netherlands?
There are many great researchers and institutions in America, so it’s not surprising that America has a stake, if not even a large stake...
Merle van den Akker
Sep 14, 20205 min
Is Behavioural Science just too WEIRD?
Behavioural science is weird - not in a deviation from the norm type of way but most definitely in a negative way.
The biggest challenge for our field in the next 10 years… would be to understand the generality of the findings we have. We have lots of findings and different aspects and we have assumed for a long time that they would just carry over in different contexts and different occasions.
As we get access to more people and more cultures, I think we’ll have to have a more nuanced understanding of our theories and we will have to learn to adjust them based on other intervening factors that might come from culture for example. We have been ignoring culture too much.
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