ABSTRACT
There are many goals of cultural psychology. Research with a focus on culture itself is concerned with thought processes within members of a particular culture and how those thought processes are similar and different between cultures. For this research, culture is a crucial variable because culture itself is the object of study. For example, a cultural psychologist may want to identify psychological constructs that provide evidence of cultural membership or cultural differences that correlate with psychological ones. Cultures are knowledge traditions. These traditions vary between countries but also within countries. As such, an individual within the same country may be exposed to multiple cultures. * Related work has explored how bicultural individuals are able to maintain distinct cultural identities that each have a unique influence on psychological processing (Chao, Chen, Roisman, & Hong, 2007).
