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Psychology around the world
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This free course was written by Lydia Devenney, Stacey Heath, Sarah Laurence, Laura McGrath and Jim Turner.

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Figure 2: From Nisbett, R.E. and Masuda, T. (2003) ‘Culture and Point of View’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 100, no. 19., p. 11166. Copyright (2003) National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

Figure 3: Adapted from Liang, S. (2022) ‘How to understand US cultural differences impacting your business: Hofstede’s 6-D model’, https://www.markentryusa.com/en/how-to-understand-us-cultural-differences-impacting-your-business-hofstedes-6-d-model/

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Figure 6: Adapted from Fider, N.A. and Komarova, N.L. (2019) ‘Differences in color categorization manifested by males and females: a quantitative World Color Survey study’, Palgrave Communications 5, article no. 142, p. 8. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Figure 7: From: Online resources to accompany Foundations of Sensation and Perception, edn 4, by George Mather, Copyright © 2022 by Psychology Press. Reproduced by permission of Taylor & Francis Group and published under a CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0)

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