I
lead a research group -- a cultural and moral personology lab --
focusing on two research "superquestions" that each involve several
subsidiary questions.
What's the best way to understand personality variation?
* What is the most cross-culturally
generalizable structure of personality attributes, the best
(esp., valid) way to measure this structure, and how does it relate to situations and cultural context?
How do people vary, in ways that are especially consequential, in worldview beliefs, values, and moral conceptions?
* What is the most cross-culturally
generalizable structure in these domains, of personality attributes, the best
(esp., valid) way to measure this structure, and how does it relate to cultural context, to optimal human development, and to patterns of psychosocial
dysfunction (e.g., alienation, militant extremism, genocide)?
How are the personological variables described above, and the mindset they yield, fundamentally related to culture itself?
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