ABSTRACT
Can individuals from different ethnic backgrounds establish and maintain satisfying multicultural friendships and romantic relationships? If so, then what cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes are likely to facilitate the development of stable, mutually satisfying relationships crossing ethnic boundaries? These questions are as applicable to the relatively new field of cultural psychology (see Shweder & Sullivan, 1993, for a review) as they are to the equally new field of personal relationships (see Berscheid, 1994, for a review). Not surprisingly, the answers to such questions draw on theory and research in a variety of social and behavioral sciences, ranging from anthropology to psychology.
