摘要：Psychology as a science encompasses
a wide range of research methodologies.
Some methodologies in this
spectrum also apply to the study of cultural
processes. To culturalists, the conceptual
distinction between cross-cultural psychology
and cultural psychology, associated
with different methodological ideologies,
is particularly important. Cross-cultural
psychology, mainly in conjunction with
social psychology, is tied to a quantitative
methodology. Questionnaire studies and
large scale cross-cultural comparisons are
aimed at establishing patterns of behavior
at the cultural level (Van de Vijver &
Leung, 1996; Georgas et al., in prep.; see
also large scale comparisons like the PISA
studies).
