TY - JOUR
T1 - The Psychology of Cultural Change
T2 - Introduction to the Special Issue
AU - Varnum, Michael E.W.
AU - Grossmann, Igor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021. American Psychological Association
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Human societies are not static. Attitudes, norms, institutions, behavior, and cultural products shift over time, sometimes with dizzying speed. However psychological science has either largely ignored cultural change or tacitly treated it as a source of noise. These changes in fact have important implications not only for psychological theory and research, but also policy, public health, and daily life. The present special issue draws together cutting-edge research and theory that addresses what one might think of as “the What,” the “Why,” and the “How” of cultural change. The articles encompass a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches and focus on a diverse set of phenomena and processes ranging from personality to prejudice, to collective memory. Here we provide a brief overview and introduction, laying out our hopes to encourage more psychologists to consider cultural change in their own research and to join us in the emerging field of cultural dynamics.
AB - Human societies are not static. Attitudes, norms, institutions, behavior, and cultural products shift over time, sometimes with dizzying speed. However psychological science has either largely ignored cultural change or tacitly treated it as a source of noise. These changes in fact have important implications not only for psychological theory and research, but also policy, public health, and daily life. The present special issue draws together cutting-edge research and theory that addresses what one might think of as “the What,” the “Why,” and the “How” of cultural change. The articles encompass a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches and focus on a diverse set of phenomena and processes ranging from personality to prejudice, to collective memory. Here we provide a brief overview and introduction, laying out our hopes to encourage more psychologists to consider cultural change in their own research and to join us in the emerging field of cultural dynamics.
KW - Big data
KW - Computational models
KW - Computational social science
KW - Cultural change
KW - Cultural evolution
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U2 - 10.1037/amp0000898
DO - 10.1037/amp0000898
M3 - Article
C2 - 34914424
AN - SCOPUS:85122844811
SN - 0003-066X
VL - 76
SP - 833
EP - 837
JO - American Psychologist
JF - American Psychologist
IS - 6
ER -