Why might it be important to consider cultural influences on personality?

why might it be important to consider cultural influences on personality? western ideas about personality may not be applicable to other cultures (benet-martinez & oishi, 2008). in fact, there is evidence that the strength of personality traits varies across cultures. let’s take a look at some of the big five factors (conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion) across cultures. as you will learn when you study social psychology, asian cultures are more collectivist, and people in these cultures tend to be less extroverted. people in central and south american cultures tend to score higher on openness to experience, whereas europeans score higher on neuroticism (benet-martinez & karakitapoglu-aygun, 2003).

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