摘要：My examination copy of Zimbardo’s new Cultural Psychology film in the Discovering
Psychology series arrived just before my Culture and Psychology class, at a
point in the semester when I was covering some of the basic theoretical foundations
of the field, including the one after which the film was titled. I walked the tape from
mailbox to classroom VCR and introduced it as an overview of cultural psychology. Twentyfour
minutes later, angry, I had to explain that this film did not, after all, depict cultural
psychology, nor did it represent the cultural pursuits of psychologists very well. I subsequently
used the IACCP discussion list to invite reviews of the film. In soliciting reviewers,
I set out to obtain opinions from three
constituent groups in IACCP: selfdescribed
“cross-cultural psychologists,”
“cultural psychologists,” and members
who focus mainly on ethnic diversity
or multiculturalism. Harry Triandis, a
founder of the cross-cultural psychology
movement, Carl Ratner, an active and
impassioned cultural psychologist, and
Stephanie Brickman, a practicing, onthe-
ground multiculturalist (my term)
agreed to write reviews.
