Culture bias

Question 1

Cultural bias

Answer 1

Most of psychological research tends to suffer from a western bias, which is not really surprising given most of the psychologists in the world are educated in the west, as are much of the participants involved.

Question 2

Ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Ethnocentrism is the assumption that one ethnic or cultural group is superior to other cultural groups as we use our own cultural group as a basis for judgement of others.

Question 3

Cultural Relativism

Answer 3

This is the idea that all cultures are worthy of respect and we should try to understand the way in which other cultures see the world.