Culture and Psychology

Abstract

In the past few decades, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to the relationship between culture and psychology, and a new domain of cross-cultural psychology has emerged to address the relativity of psychology and to study psychological differences across cultures. Today, most psychology curricula at universities include courses such as multicultural psychology, cross-cultural counseling, and culturally sensitive counseling and psychotherapy. All address the unique psychologies of people belonging to African, Asian, Latino, or other non-Western cultures, who constitute about 80% of the Earth’s population.