UK Psychology & Culture meeting

The annual UK Psychology & Culture meeting was held on June 16 at the University of Sussex. Lusine Grigoryan presented preliminary findings from the project "(In)Alienable Worth? Cultural Logics of Dignity, Honor, and Face and their Links to Prosociality Across the World", funded by the John Templeton Foundation through the Psychological Science Accelerator. The talk focused on the process of co-creation of a culturally informed measure of the cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face, and the preliminary results testing the factor structure of this questionnaire across more than 20,000 participants in 50 countries. The data collection for this project is ongoing and will be completed by 31 July, 2025. 

Abstract

Most psychological instruments are developed in English-speaking contexts and simply translated to other languages when conducting cross-cultural research. This approach limits the cultural relevance and sensitivity of the measures we use. Consequently, it restricts the range of experiences, thoughts, and feelings that are being studied and perpetuates a Western-centric perspective in psychology. In a large-scale collaborative project involving over 300 collaborators across more than 60 countries, we aimed to collaboratively co-create a questionnaire to capture the cultural logics of dignity, honor, and face. This presentation described the co-development process, highlighting how we facilitated collaboration at this scale. I also outlined the pretesting and translation stages that ensured the instrument's cultural sensitivity and validity. Finally, I presented findings from our main study, showcasing the validation of the questionnaire and mapping the global prevalence of dignity, honor, and face cultural logics.