Culture and Psychology
Essay title: A weird/non-Weird understanding of attachment to parents
This is a 1500 word essay in which the task is to take a topic common to western/WEIRD psychology, and examine how it is either similar or variable in a different cultural context.
Several topics will be pre-specified, but students may suggest alternative topics which may be approved at the module leader’s discretion.
Students will be required to define the construct under consideration, identify what the WEIRD conception and findings are on the topic, then identify how this varies (or does not) in different cultural contexts.
The students will need to evaluate the utility of the concept and its general application, and identify ways in which research will further our understanding of the concept in a global sense
