TY - JOUR AU - Brislin, R W AB - By any conventional standard, the amount of cross-cultural research pub­ lished since the last treatment in the Annual Review ofPsychology (Labora­ tory of Comparative Human Cognition 1979) has been massive. There have been two Handbooks (Triandis et al 1980, Munroe et al 1981); edited collections (Altman et al 1980, Warren 1980, Hamnett & Brislin 1980); proceedings volumes of conferences exclusively devoted to cross-cultural studies (Eckensberger et al 1979, Marsella et al 1979); a textbook (Segall 1979); as well as the usual set of book-length contributions (e.g. Hofstede 1980, Levinson & Malone 1980) and articles in the several journals wherein cross-cultural research reports predictably are to be found. Psychologists are likely to dream about field work in some remote spot not only to gather original data but also for a chance to catch up with the printed word. 0066-4308/83/0201-0363$02.00 BRISLIN In the last four to five years cross-cultural studies have been recognized as central to theory development by large numbers of psychologists. They may not have worked in other cultures themselves, but they have accepted the fact that any definition of psychology (e.g. scientific study of human behavior) must take into account the "arit�ty of human behavior found in TI - Cross-Cultural Research in Psychology JF - Annual Review of Psychology DO - 10.1146/annurev.ps.34.020183.002051 DA - 1983-02-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/annual-reviews/cross-cultural-research-in-psychology-2DG0eNE0UV SP - 363 EP - 400 VL - 34 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -