Chapter 9 – Comparison studies – cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies
This chapter looks at studies that are comparisons, either of the same people as they mature over longish periods or of several sub-group samples.
Exercises
Exercise 9.1
Have a go at this short quiz to test your understanding of comparison studies and identify any gaps in your knowledge.
Weblinks
Comparison studies – cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural studies
This is a link to a Syracuse University mounted exhibition, “All of us are related; each of us is unique”, which explores the concept of ‘race’ and shows that from DNA evidence we now know that all of us are descended from a small group of Africans who left their continent around 120,000 years ago or so. Since then we have diversified enormously but there is no scientific evidence whatsoever for the Victorian concept of separate ‘races’. We are all one in that sense.
Readings in cross-cultural psychology posted by the International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology.
http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/orpc/
Online readings in psychology and culture posted by the Centre for Cross-cultural Research at Washington University.
http://www.wwu.edu/culture/readings.htm
The National Child Development Study mentioned in the chapter.
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology website: