Report on Cultural Psychology: A new science of the human nature, Yokohama 2016

Abstract

This is a review of the symposium “Cultural Psychology: A new science of the human nature“, which took place at the International Conference of Psychology (ICP) in Yokohama in 2016. The symposium was a collaborative effort of the editors and authors of the “Yokohama Manifesto“ and its main goal was to make the ideas in this Manifesto known to a wider audience. There were five groups of authors and co-authors who presented their findings in different areas of the developing field of cultural psychology in short talks, and five discussants commenting on their respective findings.