YouTube, the Internet and IACCP: Opportunities and Challenges for Cross-Cultural Psychology

We culturalists are an unusual lot! Dispersed geographically and divided socially by potential and real political conflict, economic competition, religious disagreement and vast disparities in wealth and resources, we struggle with the dilemma of studying diversities that can only be understood adequately through effective communication and collaboration. The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology was conceptualized by psychologists who recognized and participated in this dialectical context. The Founders set out to create an organization that would provide communication venues in order to facilitate the development of a community of psychologists who would collaborate on cultural research. Communication, indeed, was the starting point of IACCP, in face-to-face interactions at international conferences in the 1960s and through a project begun in 1969 by Harry Triandis, the Cross-Cultural Social Psychology Newsletter. These two types of communication were precursors to the founding of the Association in Hong Kong in 1972

Toward Sustainable Development through Nurturing Diversity

A peer-revieved book based on presentations at the XXI Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2012, Stellenbosch, South Africa. (c) 2014, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (ebook) ISBN 978-0-620-60283-9https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/iaccp_proceedings/1000/thumbnail.jp

Fountains at the center of Sha\u27anxi Univeristy, location of the 2004 Congress of IACCP.

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Central market of the city of Foumban, Cameroon. Foumban is in the Islamic region of west-central Cameroon. (Post-conference tour, 4th Africa Region Conference, 2009)

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A family of the Bunong tribe, central Taiwan. The Bunong are an aboriginal tribe that predate the arrival of ethnic Chinese people to Taiwan. Here shown displaying the universal symbol for hello.

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