Cultural Methods in Psychology

Describing and Transforming Cultures

Kate C. McLean

Adresses systemic biases in the ways that cultural research has been conducted historically and ways to acknowledge those biases
Highlights both mixed and qualitative methods
Utlizes real life examples to illuminate a specific methodology

Cultural Methods in Psychology

Describing and Transforming Cultures

Kate C. McLean

Description

This volume describes a broad array of culturally sensitive research methods in psychology, addressing diverse issues such as implicit bias, identity development, trauma, and racism. Each chapter provides instructive value for those who want to effectively employ these methods, as well as deep reflection on the meaning of various methods for understanding complex psychological phenomena. The methods discussed include various interview methodologies, digital tools, use of media representations, exposure to positive exemplars, survey and experience sampling, and participatory action research. These topics and methods are arranged across three sections: methods that are meant to describe culture and cultural phenomena, methodologies designed to facilitate awareness of structural bias and inequity, and a section on broad, overarching issues, such as the colonial harm inflicted by scientific research, diversity in open science, and intersectionality.

Cultural Methods in Psychology

Describing and Transforming Cultures

Kate C. McLean

Introduction
Kate C. McLean

Part I. Describing

Chapter 1. Using Life Story Methods to Illuminate Cultural-Historical Dimensions of LGBTQ+ Identity Development Across the Generations
Nic M. Weststrate

Chapter 2. Listening for Culture: Using Interviews to Understand Identity in Context
Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Ursula Moffitt, Courtney Meiling Jones

Chapter 3. Strengths-based Approaches to Conducting Research with Low Income and Other Marginalized Populations
Sherry Hamby

Chapter 4. Cultural Snapshots: Identifying Cultural Patterns that Influence Implicit Racial Bias
Kristin Pauker, Sarah A. Lamer, Shahana Ansari and Max Weisbuch

Chapter 5. Social Media as Tools for Cultural Change in the Transition to Adulthood
Adriana M. Manago, Nicholas D. Santer, Logan L. Barsigian and Abigail S. Walsh

Chapter 6. Relational Methodology
James Allen, Inna D. Rivkin and Joseph E. Trimble

Chapter 7. Methodologies for Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Subjective Experiences: Addressing Response Biases
Zachary Willett, Kendall Lawley, Barbara Lehman, & Christie Scollon

Part II. Transforming

Chapter 8. "Justice for Native People, Justice for Native Me": Using Digital Storytelling Methodologies to Change the Master Narrative of Native American Peoples
Jillian Fish and Payton K. Counts

Chapter 9. Participatory Action Research with Immigrant-Origin Youth
Dalal Katsiaficas

Chapter 10. Positive Exemplar Exposure: A Method for Early Implicit Racial Bias Change
Antonya Marie Gonzalez

Chapter 11. Guidance for Applied Cross-National Research in Under-Resourced Countries: Lessons from a Gender-Based Violence Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Karen J. Torjesen, Meg A. Warren and Grace Wamue-Ngare

Chapter 12. Interpersonal Violence in Context: A Call to Consider Cultural Stigma in Theory and Research on the Psychology of Trauma
Brianna C. Delker

Part III. Broader Issues

Chapter 13. Intersectionality as an analytic sensibility in cultural research
Kevin Delucio, Ph.D. and Adrian J. Villicana, Ph.D.

Chapter 14. Mining for Culture or Researching for Justice? Unsettling Psychology through Indigenist Conversation
Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen and Lindsay DuPré

Chapter 15. Cultural Psychology, Diversity, and Representation in Open Science
Moin Syed and Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla

Cultural Methods in Psychology

Describing and Transforming Cultures

Kate C. McLean

Author Information

Kate C. McLean is a Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University. Her research program centers on the development of identity in adolescence and adulthood, placing special emphasis on the cultural and relational processes of identity construction, as well as the correlates and consequences of individual differences in narrative identity construction. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Identity Development, and the author of The Co-Authored Self.

Contributors:

James Allen
Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health
Medical School, Duluth Campus
University Drive
Duluth, MN, USA

Shahana Ansari
Department of Psychology
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI, USA

Logan L. Barsigian

Andrea V. Breen
University of Guelph
Ontario, Canada

Payton K. Counts
Indigenous Peoples Task Force
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Brianna C. Delker
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Kevin Delucio
Duluth , MN
Bellingham, WA

Lindsay DuPré
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Toronto, ON, Canada

Jillian Fish
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Antonya Marie Gonzalez
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Sherry Hamby
Sewanee University
Sewanee, TN, USA

Courtney Meiling Jones

Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Dalal Katsiaficas
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL, USA

Sarah A. Lamer
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Department of Psychology
Knoxville, TN, USA

Kendall Lawley
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Barbara Lehman
Western Washington University
Honolulu, HI, USA

Adriana M. Manago
Department of Psychology
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA, USA

Kate C. McLean
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Ursula Moffitt
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA

Kristin Pauker
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, HI, USA

Catherine Riordan
Bellingham, WA

Inna D. Rivkin
University of Alaska
Fairbanks, AK, USA

Leoandra Onnie Rogers
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA

Nicholas D. Santer

Christi Scollon
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Moin Syed
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Karen J. Torjesen
Medical School, Duluth Campus
Claremont, CA, USA

Joseph E. Trimble
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Adrian J. Villicana
Department of Psychology
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA, USA

Abigail S. Walsh

Grace Wamue-Ngare

Meg A. Warren
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Max Weisbuch
Department of Psychology
University of Denver
Denver, CO, USA

Nicholas Weststrate
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Illinois
Chicago, IL, USA

Zach Willett
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

Shawn Wilson
Southern Cross University
Australia

Cultural Methods in Psychology

Describing and Transforming Cultures

Kate C. McLean

Reviews and Awards

"The field of psychology has spent the past decade wrestling with two crises: a crisis of evidence about the robustness of our findings, and a crisis of relevance about the utility of our work for addressing issues in society. The chapters in this volume provide insights to address both sets of concerns. Authors discuss methodologies from cultural psychology that can be leveraged to improve to the rigor psychological research, and the practical relevance of that research for improving lives in our diverse society." -- Neil A. Lewis, Jr., Ph.D, Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine, Department of Communication, Division of General Internal Medicine, USA

"This is a definite must read for any budding or established researcher and practitioner of (cross)cultural psychology. This book provides a unique and much needed perspective into the complexities, challenges, and positive gains of doing socially just, ethical, experientially-relevant, and theoretically and methodologically sound cultural research. The overall framework of the book –that culture can be described but also transformed-- is one that most traditional and cross-cultural researchers have not thought about enough. This book can teach them why and how this perspective is critically important. It helps also that the editor has done a terrific job in collecting and integrating views from the relevant experts while covering a very impressive array of topics." -- Veronica Benet-Martinez, Ph.D, Research Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain

"The ways in which we do science is changing. As the field of psychology strives to become more inclusive, equitable, and transparent, this book comes at the perfect time. The impressive collection of chapters from leading scholars will inspire researchers to think more critically and creatively about our approaches and methods. To do so this book describes a diversity of innovative methodologies to build a body of knowledge that is rigorous, relevant, and, importantly, not doing harm to the people and communities involved. Cultural Methods in Psychology will spark new ideas and is a joy to read." -- Linda Juang, Ph.D, Professor of Inclusive Education, Diversity in Education and Development, Univrersity of Potsdam, Germany

"This book is a timely and excellent resource for all scholars who are committed to supporting and conducting culturally responsible science. The nuanced discussions of equity and justice as they relate to our scientific practices are refreshing and absolutely needed to move the field of psychology forward." -- Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Ph.D, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA