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• Some theorize that significant events in one's life strongly influence personality formation
  
  
  • Video: N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman
    (26 of 59 min., 1980, VC 2371)
    
    or
    
    Video Clip: "Arranged Marriages: N!ai"
    (10 min., 1980, VC 182 / VC 2371)
    
    
• Question: Do similar practices in different cultures produce similar psychological correlates?
  
  
  • And do these include "childhood" [etic] marriage?
    
    
  • And do these include birth order practices and their effects on personality? (Cf., Day 09)
    • Video: Birth Order and Its Effects
      (18 min., 1997, DVD 191)
      
      Freelisting exercise results re birth order practices and their effects on personality
      
      
      • clustering
        
        
• Question: On the other hand how do similar practices in different cultures produce "Culture-Bound Syndromes," which are unique psychological correlates?
  
  
  • Video: Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex
    (38 min., 1990, VC 4651)
    or
  • Video Clip: "Latah"
    (8:25 min., 1978; orig. 38 min., 1978)
    
    
  • (see Latah WebPage for film guide and study questions)

• Question: "How do Alterted States of Consciousness (ASCs) fit in?" (intro.)
  
  
  
  • Types
  • Typology
  • Distinctive Features
  • Changes / Modifications
    
    

• Reading Assignment
  • Ch. 7, "Motives, Beliefs, and Values," pp. 198-226