Textbook:

Cultural Psychology (Fourth Edition)

Steven J. Heine

W. W. Norton & Company, 4thEdition

ISBN-13:978-0393644692

Please reply to the follow 4 prompts below in paragraph form.

1. Using cultural priming, come up with a within-groups study design involving American and Japanese participants that examines whether independent or interdependent mind-sets affect their feelings of connectedness with their friends (ignore response biases as a consideration for this question).

2. You are hoping to study how people from Denmark and people from Russia differ on levels of happiness. You are concerned about your study being susceptible to the reference-group effect. What is one way of measuring happiness that lessens your study's susceptibility?

3. Compare and contrast authoritarian parenting and authoritative parenting, making sure to include associated parental attributes.

4. In a political pamphlet being handed out to students on campus, the writer is suggesting that capitalism is a product of the trades and activities of Islamic merchants. According to Weber's thesis that capitalism grew out of a belief system rooted in cultural ideas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, do you agree or disagree with the pamphlet? Why or why not?