PhD in Cross-cultural Psychology

Enhance your degree and get the skills and knowledge to design, conduct, and evaluate cross-cultural research through advanced study of PhD in Cross-cultural Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington.

Gain an understanding of how culture affects the way people think and behave. Explore cultural variation in psychological processes and examine the role of culture in shaping human behaviour.

Key facts

• Develop the skills you need to critically assess and engage in cultural and cross-cultural research and learn the importance of understanding human behaviour from both culture-specific and culture-general perspectives. 

• Learn to become a skilful researcher or to work with culturally diverse communities either in New Zealand or internationally.

• Be part of the only postgraduate programme in PhD in Cross-cultural Psychology PhD in Cross-cultural Psychology from  Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington , in Australasia, and one of only two available in English in the world. 

Courses include

• effects of culture on human behaviour and experience

• acculturation processes

• cultural identity and intergroup processes

• perceptions of immigrants

• how social systems evolve over time

• multicultural work groups

• cross-cultural studies of trust and social exchange