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Entangled minds: a roadmap for bridging cultural and personality psychology research

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Li,  Ranran
Criminology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Max Planck Society;

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Li, R., & Zettler,  . (2025). Entangled minds: a roadmap for bridging cultural and personality psychology research. Personality Science, 6. doi:10.1177/27000710251388772.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0011-FEC6-0
Abstract
Personality and cultural psychology have often advanced in parallel, yet their integration is essential for building a truly comprehensive personality science. This review synthesizes existing insights into a three-part roadmap for bridging the two fields. First, personality?broadly understood as individual differences in beliefs, traits, and values?shows systematic variation across societies. Second, personality and culture are dynamically entangled: culture co-shapes beliefs, traits, and values, while personality co-shapes how individuals select, interpret, adapt to, and co-create cultural environments. Third, meaningful diversity exists not only across but also within cultural groups, highlighting intragroup variability that is often obscured by focusing on group-level averages and guarding against ecological fallacies. By connecting these perspectives, the roadmap aims to provide a conceptual scaffold for more comprehensive, context-sensitive, and inclusive personality science.