Class: Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology

QUESTIONS: Generate a list of what you believe are popular yet distinct ways for expressing psychological distress within your culture. Ask at least two friends from different cultural backgrounds than your own to also develop lists of of the common ways of expressing distress in their perspective cultures. Compare the lists. Identify similarities and differences. How does culture shape the expressions of distress that differ among the lists? Does culture still exert an influence on similar expressions? If yes, what role does it play in these expressions?

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