ABSTRACT
The chapters in this volume have addressed numerous issues of central concern in cultural and cross-cultural research and theory. However, several more general issues, raised both in these chapters and in the conference that inspired the publication of this volume, have implications for both the present status of cultural and cross-cultural theorizing and the future directions it is likely to take. Stimulated by the need to address these issues, the editors asked both the contributors to this volume and other conference participants to respond to a number of questions of general importance in assessing the role of culture in acquiring a general understanding of human behavior. This section of the volume summarizes responses to these questions, which include:
What is the relevance of psychological studies of culture to national development and national policies? (Harry C. Triandis, Shalom H. Schwartz, Richard W. Brislin, Sik Hung Ng)
What is the relationship between macro structures of a society and shared cognitions? (Michael Harris Bond, Shalom H. Schwartz, Michele Gelfand, Michael W. Morris)
How can structural and process models be integrated into a coherent theory of culture? (Shigehiro Oishi, Ara Norenzayan)
How do personal experience and cultural traditions interact to give rise to intracultural/ regional variations within a national culture? (Richard W. Brislin, Michael Harris Bond, Kwok Leung, Harry C. Triandis, Michael W. Morris, Dov Cohen)
Can culture be validly measured by self-reports? (Michael Harris Bond, Harry C. Triandis, Chi-yue Chiu, Shalom H. Schwartz, Michele Gelfand, Richard W. Brislin)
What is the future of cultural psychology? What are the new challenges and frontiers? (Harry C. Triandis, Ara Norenzayan, Michele Gelfand, Richard W. Brislin)
Should cultural psychology strive to eliminate culture as an explanatory variable? (Arthur B. Markman, Kwok Leung, Ying-yi Hong)
