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| Japanese term coined by Takeo Doi that implies indulgence and dependence, of the sort that may exist between a parent and child |
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| learned psychological attributes of groups, which include customs, habits, beliefs and values that shape emotions, behavior and life pattern. It also includes language, modes of thinking, and perhaps even fundamental views of reality |
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| the process of socialization through which an individual acquires his or her native culture, mainly early in life |
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| the process of social influence by which a person partially or fully acquires a new cultural outlook, either by having contact with or by living in a different culture from his or her culture of origin |
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| the anthropological view that nothing in the world has any meaning or essence apart from the interpretations that observers invent; cultures are so fundamentally different that they cannot be compared because no independent or common frame of reference exists |
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| the human capacity to invent and use symbol systems such as language |
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| personality assessment centered on individuals taken one at a time, rather than on differences between two or more individuals |
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| the universal components of an idea. In cross-cultural psychology, the reference is to phenomena that all cultures have in common |
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| the locally relevant components of an idea. In cross-cultural psychology, the reference is to aspects of a phenomenon that are specific to a particular culture |
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| in Zen Buddhism, the fundamental idea that the single, isolated self is an illusion |
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| in Zen Buddhism, the recognition that all things are temporary and that therefore it is best to avoid attachments to them |
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| in Zen Buddhism, the state of selfless being that is the pleasant result of having achieved enlightenment |
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| judging another culture from the point of view of one's own |
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| outgroup homogeneity bias |
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| the socio-psychologycal phenomenon by which members of a group to which one does not belong seem more alike than members of a group to which one does belong |
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| the phenomenologically based idea that all cultural view of reality or equally valid, and that it is presumptuous and ethnocentric to judge any of them as good or bad |
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| bicultural identity integration (BII) |
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| the degree to which a bicultural individual perceives his/her two cultural identities as distant, and conflicting |
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