Research
Interests: Frank T. McAndrew,
Ph.D.
Cross-Cultural
Psychology
By
accident, I have
become something of a cross-cultural psychologist. Early in my career,
I had several students who were interested in cross-cultural issues,
and at the time I was quite interested in nonverbal communication,
something that is strongly affected by cultural variables. Therefore,
it was very easy to combine my own interests with those of my students.
As my interests changed, I found that cross-cultural research was an
essential component to the testing of evolutionary hypotheses; hence, I
often find cross-cultural similarities to be more interesting than
cross-cultural differences. My track record in cross-cultural research
is an eclectic hodge-podge of things. Probably the most consistent
research thread has been an ongoing interest in the content of national
stereotypes. The journals I look at most frequently to keep up with
cross-cultural research are Cross-Cultural
Research, the Journal
of Cross-Cultural Psychology, and the Journal of
Social
Psychology. A list of some of my
cross-cultural research projects
follows. Most of the co-authors on these studies were
students of mine at Knox College.
Minervini,
B. P., & McAndrew, F. T.
(2006).
The mating strategies and mate preferences of mail order brides.
Cross-Cultural Research, 40, 111-129. [Also a Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution
Society, Berlin, Germany, July, 2004]
Rybak,
A., & McAndrew, F. T. (2006). How do we decide who our
friends
are? Defining levels of friendship in Poland and the United States.
Journal of Social
Psychology, 146, 147-163.
Carlson,
E. A., & McAndrew, F. T. (2004).
Body shape ideals and perceptions of body shape in Spanish and American
college students. Perceptual
and Motor Skills, 99, 1071-1074.
McAndrew, F.T., Akande, A.,
Bridgstock, R., Mealey,
L., Gordon, S., Scheib, J., Akande-Adetoun, B.E., Odeale, F.,
Morakinyo, A., Nyahete, P., & Mubvakure, G. (2000). A
Multicultural Study of Stereotyping in English-Speaking Countries.
Journal of Social
Psychology, 140, 487-502.
McAndrew, F.T., Akande, A.,
Turner, S., & Sharma,
Y.(1998). A
cross-cultural ranking of stressful life events in Germany, India,
South Africa, & the United States. Journal of
Cross-Cultural
Psychology, 29, 717-727.
Soliman,
D.R. &
McAndrew, F.T. (1998).
Self-Concept in Arabs and Arab-Americans. Psi Chi Journal of
Undergraduate Research, 3, 124-126.
McAndrew,
F.T., Turner, S.,
Fiedeldey, A.C., &
Sharma, Y. (1998, July) Are
Human Environmental Preferences Universal?
Evidence from a Cross-Cultural Study of Preferences for Visual and
Non-Visual Features of Outdoor Environments. Paper presented
at the
annual meeting of The Human
Behavior and Evolution Society, Davis, CA. Click here for the tables
McAndrew,
F.T., and Akande,
A.(1995). African
Perceptions of Americans of African and European Descent. Journal of
Social Psychology, 135, 649-655.
McAndrew,
F.T., &
Gullapalli, G. (1993, May).
American and Muslim Perceptions of Ten Islamic Nations. Paper presented
at the Meeting of the Midwestern
Psychological Association, Chicago.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1990). Auto-
and Heterostereotyping in
Pakistani, French, and American college students. Journal of Social
Psychology, 130, 341-351.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1990). The
Semantic Differential Scale
of National Stereotypes. In E. Perloff(Ed.), Health and Psychosocial
Instruments(HAPI). Pittsburgh, PA: Behavioral Measurement
Database
Service.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1987).
Decoding visual dominance among
Pakistani college students. Journal
of Social Psychology, 127, 317-320.
McAndrew,
F.T.(1986). A
cross-cultural study of
recognition thresholds for facial expressions of emotion. Journal of
Cross-Cultural Psychology, 17, 211-224.
Nichols,
K.R., and McAndrew,
F.T.(1984). Stereotyping
and autostereotyping in Spanish, Malaysian, and American college
students. Journal of
Social Psychology, 124, 179-189.
LINKS:
The
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
The
Center
for Cross-Cultural Research
