RICHARD A. SHWEDER
Email address: rshd@ccp.uchicago.edu
My research is in the area of ethnopsychology and cultural psychology. It
includes work in anthropology of thought (cognitive anthropology, culture and
thought), cross-cultural human development and culture theory. I am currently
involved in the following projects: Cross-cultural variation in the concept of
the person, and as an examination of the role of conversational routines and
tacit communication in the development of the self: analysis of customary
practice as part of the moral order; the relationship between intuitive and
non-intuitive concepts with special reference to man's limitations as an
intuitive scientist; the influence of semantic structures on judgement with
special attention to personality attributions and their validity;
reconceptualizing the "Whorfian hypothesis" and assessing its validity;
rethinking the nature of explanation and understanding in physiological
anthropology; comparative studies of emotions and explanations of illness.
(Human Development)
1. Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion. (1984) New York:
Cambridge University Press, (Richard A. Shweder and Robert A. Levine,
editors).
2. Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities. (1986),
Chicago:The University of Chicago Press. (Richard A. Shweder and D.W. Fiske,
editors).
3. Cultural Psychology: The Chicago Symposia. New York:
Cambridge University Press. (James Stigler, Richard A. Shweder, Gilbert Herdt,
editors).
4. Thinking through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology.
Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press.