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The Center for Cross-Cultural Research is a collaborative intellectual space that provides opportunities for the professional growth of WWU faculty and students who are culturally-oriented, research-focused, and psychologically-grounded.

As core values, we are:

Culturally-oriented

We are committed to understanding the relationship between culture and psychological processes. Although the term “cross-cultural” implies a comparative focus, we examine culture’s varied and universal influence as a dynamic system based on people’s shared meanings and understandings of the world.

Research-focused

As a research center, we strive to contribute to the understanding of cultural processes through systematic observation. We recognize and encourage the many different methodological practices that foster greater understanding of culture and acknowledge that effective cultural research is relational and reciprocal.

Psychologically-grounded

We maintain our commitment to the Center’s founding goals by examining cultural processes principally within the disciplinary lens of psychology. We focus on the various mental processes that occur within and between people’s understanding of themselves and others.

Questions concerning the Center should be addressed to

Kate McLean
Director of the Center for Cross-Cultural Research
360-650-3570

Kate.McLean@wwu.edu

RSS Center for Cross-Cultural Research

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  • WWU’s Joseph Trimble Receives 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from University of Oklahoma
  • WWU's Center for Cross-Cultural Research to Host Donna Nagata Oct. 15
  • WWU’s Center for Cross-Cultural Research to host Kristin Pauker May 7
  • Western's Center for Cross-Cultural Research hosts Onnie Rogers Feb. 7 for 'It's Just a Color'
  • WWU's Center for Cross-Cultural Research to host Dalal Katsiaficas Oct. 16
  • Joe Trimble to Present 'Disseminating Research in Alaska Native Yup’ik Communities: Challenges and Ethical Considerations' May 18
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  • Scholars to present on Blackfoot World View and Blackfoot Influence on Abraham Maslow, Oct. 13, 14 at WWU
  • Blackfoot Nation scholars to discuss world view at WWU events
  • Blackfoot world view and influence on Abraham Maslow topics of Oct. 13, 14 presentations

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