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Searching for meaning through conspiracy theories. Considerations on the state of the art of psychological literature and definition of a research agenda from a semiotic dynamic cultural perspective Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Angelo Maria De Fortuna, Raffaele De Luca Picione
Why do conspiracy theories abound in critical times? The purpose of this article is to provide an extensive critical review of research perspectives that focus, in the age of crisis, on the human processes of sensemaking in the creation and diffusion of conspiracy theories. Correlational methods of study are not enough to highlight psychic and collective dynamics. The authors trace some paths through
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Buffer zones in Wayanad: A social constructivist exploration into farmers’ mental health Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Rahul R Menon, Manjusha G Warrier
Buffer zones are regions set aside to border protected areas to preserve biodiversity, control interactions between people and wildlife, and foster sustainable development. The majority of research on buffer zones focuses on ecological issues, and little is known about how they affect local communities’ mental health. This study explores buffer zones’ potential consequences on farmers’ mental health
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“Recasting sorcery as critical psycho-social commentary, moral discourse, and local psychotherapy” Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Susan Rasmussen
This article critically reflects on future directions in cross-cultural psychiatry and cultural psychology by engaging the challenges of interpreting psycho-social theories of causation and evidence in what is conventionally called “sorcery” in anthropology. This anthropologist argues that sorcery, notwithstanding its status as an older, classic topic in the history of anthropology and its seemingly
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Identity in university students: The semiotic work of making sense of yourself Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Kobus Marais, Luzelle Naudé
The development of a deepened sense of self in young adults is a complex process. In this paper, we report on an interdisciplinary research project on identity formation among students at the University of the Free State from the perspective of semiotic work. Based on work in psychology and semiotics, we interviewed fifty-seven students about their identity. In particular, we asked students to bring
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Body alteration: On the mental function of body modification and body decoration Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Selina M. Weiler, Cordelia Mühlenbeck, Thomas Jacobsen
Decorating the body as well as (semi-)permanent bodily modifications are a longstanding human practice, together with spending a great amount of time and effort on such body alterations. The present article reviews the mental functions of body-altering behavior. The primary aim is to identify and elucidate the predominant mental function underpinning these body alterations. Following several guidelines
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Hauteas and spirituality among indigenous Timorese: A photovoice study Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Maria Delsi Abatan, Diana Aipipidely, Andrian Liem, Indra Yohanes Kiling
The Hauteas is a branched wooden structure considered sacred by indigenous Timorese. This qualitative study aimed to discover how indigenous Timorese people perceive hauteas and spirituality. Its purpose is to preserve cultural beliefs and to gain a better understanding of indigenous views of spirituality. The study used a slightly modified photovoice method to capture the experience and knowledge
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An ecological model of experienced stigma during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study in Malaysia Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 May Kyi Zay Hta, Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting, Esther Zhen Mei Ong, Liz Jones
In this paper, we adopted an ecological model and relational cognition framework to decolonize pandemic stigma in a non-WEIRD society. We reconstructed the concept of pandemic stigma in an ex-colonized and multicultural society of Southeast Asia region, by conducting a qualitative study in Malaysia to explore their lived experiences of differential treatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic from 2020 to
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Communicating freedom in the bifurcation point: Amanogawa (the Milky Way) as a metaphor for developing the three layers model of genesis Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Teppei Tsuchimoto, Tamiyo Koyama
To understand new facets of situated freedom, this study explores the socio-cultural process of ‘freedom’ in everyday situations from the trajectory equifinality approach (TEA) perspective. The concept is important for TEA, which describes aspects of ‘free’ choice as constructed through communication between self and society. This study elaborates on and enriches the argument of the situated freedom
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Emotional configurations of grief: Narratives from childhood Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Annukka Pursi, Lasse Lipponen, Saila Poulter, Emma Kurenlahti
Being human involves encountering losses to which grief is a common response. No one can escape grief—it is the price of affection and love. In this paper, we aim to understand how grieving unfolds as described in university students’ short narratives of their childhood. Applying a cultural-historical approach, especially the notion of emotional configuration, we explore the interplay of emotion, sense-making
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COVID-19 and emerging adults in India: A social representation approach Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Vrushali Pathak, Korsi Dorene Kharshiing, Mohammad Ghazi Shahnawaz
The outbreak and rapid spread of the novel coronavirus disease or COVID-19 had health, social and economic ramifications for people worldwide. Using the framework of Social Representation Theory, the present research attempts to understand how emerging adults (18–29 years) made sense of the COVID-19 outbreak, the role of collectives (organizations) in managing it, and the evolution of this understanding
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Book Review: Contemporary conspiracy culture: truth and knowledge in an era of epistemic instability Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ron C. Hopkins
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The use of branded clothing in identity development and social relations between adolescents Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jamile Leidiane dos Santos César, Luca Tateo
Branded clothes and accessories are objects whose meaning extends beyond their use value. Branded items are widely used and consumed by adolescents worldwide, affecting their perception of themselves and of others. Then, how does the use of branded clothes and accessories relate to the identity development and the social relations between adolescents? To answer, we present the result of a netnographic
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‘I’ve tried not to show it too much, and not burden others with my problems’: A discourse analysis of understandings of grief among siblings bereaved by drug-related deaths Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Gunhild Meen, Monika Alvestad Reime, Lillian Bruland Selseng
This article explores discourses of grief and loss among siblings bereaved by drug-related deaths. Although sociocultural context influences how grief is expressed and understood, there is a lack of knowledge about how prevailing discourses on grief provide conditions for dealing with grief. The aim of this study was to draw attention to cultural understandings of grief with the research question:
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A glimpse inside: Examining loob from the life stories of center-based Filipino children in conflict with the law Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Lorelie Ann Banzon-Librojo
This study is a reexamination of the life stories of 10 male, center-based, Filipino children in conflict with the law (CICL) focusing on the most prominent descriptions of their loob or inner self before entering the youth rehabilitation center, during their commitment at the center, and after they leave the center. Participants were 18–22 years old during the interviews but were charged with committing
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Social-ecological semiotics and the complex organization of psyche, language, and culture Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Glen Rutherford, Sudarat Tuntivivat
In each given situation, our words and deeds carry signs and meanings that are contingent on, and reflect, the social-ecological semiotic settings. The purpose of this work is to better understand the complex organization of psyche, language, and culture. The process of hyper-generalization brings affective and cognitive opposites into the whole sign field and guides the whole relating with the world
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Who to marry? Norwegian-Tamil young adults reflecting on their conditions for partner choice. A narrative approach to intergenerational change processes Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Aparna Malin Thilliampalam, Berit Overå Johannesen
Family and generational issues are central to research and debate on migration and culture. In this article we combine perspectives on partner choice and marriage with a narrative approach to intergenerational dynamics. More specifically we have invited young adult Norwegian-Tamils to gather in small groups with same gender peers and reflect on topics of partner choice and marriage. The data resulting
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Reflection to freedom: Return of a fundamental discourse in Contemporary Psychology Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Marc Antoine Campill
In the following article, we take a look into the contribution of Ernö and Birk (2024), “Rethinking Freedom for Contemporary Psychology”. During that process, the central statements of their article are first highlighted and then challenged/re-elaborated. The goal is to underline the importance of their contribution to our current scientific stances and the context that we retrace in ourselves as researchers
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Natural origins of social essentialism: Ethnic groups, identities, and cultural transmission Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Wolfgang Wagner
This paper argues that the term ‘social essence’ is overused in psychological research and includes instances that are not covered by the basic definition of an essentialist cognition with living beings. Imagining an essence of living beings is conceptualized as a meta-cognition that wraps up an exemplars' characteristics as a marker and assigns it a kind or species. This paper develops a framework
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The journey from unrealistic to realistic optimism: Ancient Confucian wisdom in modern business practice Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Sophia Chia-Min Chou
The notion of “realistic optimism” seems paradoxical, intertwining the contradictory elements of objective judgment and a positive outlook. Extant research often falls short in analyzing this dilemma and in capturing the cultural nuances. Given Confucianism’s endeavors to reconcile realism and optimism, this paper explores the cultivation of realistic optimism in Confucian classics. Further, an account
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Older black South African women’s perceptions and attitudes of long-term care: An Ubuntu-centric cultural perspective Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Anja Venter, Cheryl Petersen, Jaco Hoffman
Older black people in South Africa stay a part of an extended family structure well into old age, irrespective of the family’s ability to provide the necessary care. South Africa’s (SA) underdeveloped infrastructure creates an increasing cause for concern as the size of the country’s older population is growing. The result is a persistent and wide-reaching disparity in access to sufficient geriatric
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Systematic literature review: The use of the concept of perezhivanie in research on teacher training Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Juliana Corrêa Schwarz, Leiri Ratti, Juliano Mainardes Waiga, Tania Stoltz, Denise de Camargo
The aim of this study was to map research, based on a qualitative approach, that uses the Vygotskian concept of perezhivanie (lived experience) as a category of analysis in research on teacher training. The bibliographic survey was carried out using the systematic literature review and meta-synthesis method. As a result of this procedure, four scientific publications that make use of the concept of
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Instagram and end of life. Exploring the mediational role of social networks in young cancer patients through a case study Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Ignasi Seró Torroja, Ignacio Brescó, Belén Jiménez-Alonso
The growing prominence of social networks has changed the field of death by allowing people to share their personal experience of dying or surviving the death of loved ones. This paper features a case study through which we examine the mediational role of new technologies in end-of-life experiences in young cancer patients. The case study revolves around an Instagram account created by a young Spanish
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“A man doesn’t drink from a straw. Never!” the experience of coming out as gay to oneself and to others Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Gustav M Sindberg, Sarah H Awad
We examine in this paper the individual and social process of coming out as gay. Through a sociocultural and developmental psychology theoretical lens, we unfold the process as a liminal experience that starts within the individual and is continuously negotiated in between the person, the social others, and the broader society. Through interviews and autoethnography, we look at this process through
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Trajectory equifinality model and German research on women’s self-negotiation of perceived normativity in a Western society Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Rebecca Menhart
This study is concerned with the negotiation of tall women's body height and perceived normativity in our Western society. The introduction aims to describe the role of the body in a cultural context and questions socially embedded norms regarding deviations. Medical procedures and possibilities are presented how body height can be determined already in childhood and how it can be influenced in case
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Work and depression: A meaning-making perspective Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Pedro F Bendassolli
Depression is a mood disorder that affects millions of people and is one of the most prevalent mental health problems worldwide. Biological, social, and psychological factors are associated with the emergence of this disorder. Among social factors, work is an area of particular importance. Depression is one of the leading causes of time off work and performance problems. Work can also trigger depression
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Rethinking freedom for contemporary psychology Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Steffen Ernø, Rasmus Birk
The purpose of this paper is to rethink the topic of freedom for contemporary psychology. Freedom, within psychological research today, is a neglected, even slightly old-fashioned term. In this paper, we explore the practical, normative, and political dimensions of freedom as a psychological concept. We begin by tracing out key understandings of freedom from political theory, before discussing how
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Runaway rights: How rights become expanded, adopted, and coopted Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Fathali M Moghaddam, Winnifred R Louis, Robin Banks
We are in an age of rights, in the sense that major social and political movements use the rhetoric of rights (not duties), including women’s rights, Black rights, gay rights, and animal rights. This paper explores runaway rights, the trend of extending rights to more and more domains, and using the language of rights in social contestations. This accelerating profusion of different kinds of rights
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Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Mariana Feldmann, Raquel Sousa Lobo Guzzo
This article summarizes the results of a doctoral thesis based on the psychosocial perspective and was justified by the indigenous presence in the city and the lack of public policies that respond ...
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Using Emotional Text Mining to Explore the Cultural Representation of Organ Donation in Spanish and Italian Culture Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Silvia Monaco, Anna Cortellino, Maria Giovanna Massari, Michela Di Trani, Francesca Greco
Spain is considered the world leader in the field of Organ Donation (OD). Italy has adopted the Spanish model in its health system but failed to reach the Spanish primacy. This work investigates th...
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Hypnogenesis, Chronic Pain and Peircean Habit: Implications for Clinical Endeavors Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Hugo Nogueira Gonçalves
This study’s objective is to discuss hypnogenesis parting from one of Erickson’s chronic pain cases, analyzing hypnogenesis involvement in iatrogenesis and in the therapeutic interventions. Hypnoge...
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Hwang’s Philosophy for Developing an Indigenous Cultural Psychology Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Matthew R McWhorter
Kwang-Kuo Hwang provides numerous recommendations for how to develop an indigenous cultural psychology. These recommendations may be understood to suggest proceeding according to three stages: (1) ...
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Seeking reason and rebirth: Jungian archetypes, scientism, and a question about transhumanism Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Raya A. Jones
Attempts to make Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of archetypes scientifically credible tend to invoke biology and evolution theory. These convey faith in the power of science (scientism), taken here as a...
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Coping strategies and social representations of bullies among bullying victims from individualistic and collectivist societies Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Christin Grothaus
The effects bullying has on victims’ mental, emotional, and physical well-being depend on the coping strategies applied. As coping can be influenced by the environment in which it occurs, scholars ...
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The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State Violence in Colombia Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Serhat Tutkal
This article examines tweets about state violence targeting student protesters at the University of Cauca in December 2018. Its objective is accounting for the role of dehumanization of actors in l...
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Repairing the breach: identity narratives of a Latin American woman in Andalusia Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Manuel L de la Mata-Benítez, Alicia Español, José Antonio Matías-García, María Lojo, Cristina del Villar-Toribio
Migration can be understood as a breach in life experience, creating a transition, and identity narratives as a strategy to repair this breach. Our study focuses on how two classical dilemmas that ...
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Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Vladimir Džinović, Sanja Grbić, Dragan Vesić
The paper offers an analytical framework for conceptualization and research of the structure and dynamics of the agonistic self, relying on Hermans’ dialogical self theory and Foucault’s analytics ...
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The Veil: A Silhouette of Autonomy and Empowerment Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Syed Zamanat Abbas
This study inspects controversies in the Western World about the veil worn by Muslim women in public. It merges two separate domains, Islamic Feminism and Western Feminism. These two domains need t...
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Exploring experiences of proculturation in international students during the COVID-19 pandemic Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Daniel Correia, Maxine Watkins
This study intends to find what are the experiences of international students semiotically adapting to unfamiliar signs in the United Kingdom before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structure...
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A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 A Sadusky, H Yared, P Patrick, E Berger
Culturally and racially responsive practice continues to be a common challenge among Mental Health Practitioners (MHPs). To the authors’ knowledge, this systematic review was the first to collate a...
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Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An exploration of lived experiences Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Yukta Goel, Shefali Mishra
Conceptualization of fathers as an essential begetter survives within and through their relationship in family through ages. However, within and behind this word, a social-construct, the journey of...
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Exploring the depth of marion dönhoff’s psyche: A Cultural Psychogram Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Enno von Fircks
The present article is a psychogram about Marion Gräfin Dönhoff. I am deciphering the life of the countess on the basis of Boesch’s symbolic action theory. By the psychogram I am exploring the acti...
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Gestalt therapy, mundane phenomenology, and yoga philosophy: An integrated praxis in psychology Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Bruna Improta de Oliveira Mendonça, Denise Maria Barreto Coutinho, Nandita Chaudhary
This inquiry proposes a theoretical-conceptual dialogue between Yoga and the philosophical bases of Gestalt therapy and mundane phenomenology. By expanding the gestaltic framework, we can better co...
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Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a politicised cultural psychology Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-01-20 Nick Malherbe
The materialist conception of art understands art in relation to the material conditions within and by which art is produced and consumed. For cultural psychology, the materialist conception of art...
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Introducing Syntheses Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Kevin R Carriere
In this short Introduction, we introduce the new submission form of Syntheses. The goal of Syntheses is to provide a summary and expansion of 6–8 articles on a selected topic within Culture & Psych...
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Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint self-education Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Eugene Matusov
In this theoretical essay, I argue that the normative sociality – i.e., a normative way of being together – for joint self-education is society based on pluralism and tolerance of culturally and ed...
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Reification of infant-directed speech? Exploring assumptions shaping infant-directed speech research Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Netanel Weinstein, Dare Baldwin
The seemingly ubiquitous tendency of caregivers to speak to infants in special ways has captivated the interest of scholars across diverse disciplines for over a century. As a result, this phenomen...
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Re-defining Plurality of Autonomous, Unmerged Voices and Consciousnesses in Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Saikat Majumdar, Sandip Sarkar
Historical investigation of novel changes over the ages. It demands observations from different dimensions, confronting one another and sometimes presenting opposite views provided by additional st...
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Dialogical self on the slope: An analysis of family dynamics on skis Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Lisa-Marie Geberth
Cultural organization of action leads to dialogical resolutions to situated activity contexts. Teaching children to descend Alpine skiing slopes is the context selected to analyze such dialogicalit...
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Manifestations of Depression: Self-Perception, Culture, and Body Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Bethany Mulderig, Kevin R Carriere
As we emerge in a post-pandemic society, the feelings of isolation present during quarantine persist. But for some, these feelings of isolation have been present long before the pandemic began. The...
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The psychological aspects within the Yogyakartan Bedhaya: An exploratory study on royal court dancers Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Matheus Raoul Supriyadi, Satwika Rahapsari
As a classical art form reserved only for the Yogyakartan royalty from the 18th to the 20th century, the Bedhaya does not simply serve as entertainment for its audiences. It is the epitome of Javan...
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The Beauty of Unfulfillment Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Alberto Castelli
The dialectic between transitory pleasure and permanent values, between the nature of life and the ideal, finds one of its representations in the experience of unfulfilled loves. Cyrano de Bergerac...
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Making worldviews work: A heuristic, a planet scan, a case and their transversal implication Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Xabier Renteria-Uriarte
A worldview is, very basically, formed by tenets on the nature of the world and on the way of knowing it held by persons, social groups, intellectual currents or ethnic cultures. It is a term widel...
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School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding the richness of socio-cultural transitions Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Mami Kanzaki, Hanako Suzuki
The effects of school refusal on one’s life depend on how the adolescent lives their life after refusing school. Previous studies have focused on meaning making for past refusal and have not adequa...
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Cultural mediation of grief: the role of esthetic experience Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Luca Tateo
In Global North’s psychology, some existential experiences such as the loss of beloved persons are understood as purely individual problems. In a society of functioning individuals, the person is r...
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Insurrections of indigenous knowledges: Debating ‘critical’ in indigenous psychologies Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Parul Bansal
Indigenous Psychologies is an approach/movement premised on cultural constitution of psychological functioning. Its most significant concept is ‘culture’ as it aims to be rooted in the culturally r...
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Mothers’ ethnotheories of sibling relationships:A qualitative study in Turkey Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Zeynep Kapısız, Anna Sieben
In this article, Turkish mothers’ perspectives on sibling relationships are described and analyzed on the basis of 15 qualitative interviews. It is surprising that sibling relationships have receiv...
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Career decision-making as dynamic semiosis: Autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Teppei Tschuchimoto, Tatsuya Sato
This study aims to describe and analyze the career decision-making of the first author in the context of life trajectory using autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling (Auto-TEM). The life...
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Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between cultural-Historical positions? Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Ramiro Rodrigues Coni Santana, Marilena Ristum
Meaning was a core concept in the development of Lev Vygotsky’s cultural-historical approach. Considering the incompleteness of his work, other authors have adopted different directions in the semi...
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“Flying over the crisis”: A study on interdisciplinary metaphors of resilience Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Lisa Milena Kriegsmann-Rabe, Nina Hiebel, Katja Maus, Franziska Geiser
Background/Aim: Metaphors on theoretical concepts may be congruent or divergent from their explicit definitions. We carried out a secondary qualitative analysis on metaphors of members of an interd...
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Cultivation of Humanity: How we can stagnate within the eternal flow Culture & Psychology (IF 1.168) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Marc Antoine Campill
By introducing Taoism—the understanding of flow—and the meaning of cultivation as a basic human ability, an essential challenge in our current understanding of science can be discovered. Human inte...