identify four reasons that personality psychologists believe it is useful to explore personality across cultures;
identify and discuss the key components of "culture";
define "cultural variations" and present several examples of cultural variations;
define cultural personality psychology and identify the three key goals of this discipline;
define "evoked culture";
discuss theory and research on evoked cooperation, early experience and evoked mating strategies, and honors, insults, and evoked aggression, as examples of evoked culture;
define "transmitted culture";
discuss theory and research on cultural differences in moral values, self-concept, self-enhancement, and personality variations within cultures as examples of transmitted culture;
define "cultural universals" and present a few examples of likely cultural universals;
discuss theory and research on beliefs about the personality characteristics of men and women with reference to cultural universals;
discuss theory and research on the cultural universality of emotions, including a discussion of the difference between the experience and public display of emotions;
discuss theory and research on personality evaluation with reference to cultural universals;
discuss theory and research addressing the cultural universality of the five-factor model of personality;
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