Acknowledgments

A Maricopa Community Colleges OER Development Grant funded the creation of this PSY132 Psychology and Culture project.

The Connected Mind: Exploring Psychology Through Culture is a comprehensive, openly licensed Psychology and Culture book and course. The book and course were adapted from existing OER materials and incorporate updated research with current data and new sections that emphasize culturally relevant pedagogy. Given that many students enrolled in this course are not psychology majors, the text uses cross-disciplinary examples that highlight the relevance of psychological concepts across various fields. The emphasis is on fostering cultural competency and a broad understanding of diverse perspectives in psychology.

These materials were compiled and edited by:

Dr. Jennifer Brown of Paradise Valley Community College, Phoenix, AZ

Dr. Julie Lazzara of Chandler-Gilbert Community College, Chandler, AZ.

This work is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license unless otherwise noted.

Canvas Commons

You can find our openly licensed course on Canvas Commons, which includes assignments and discussion boards.

Attribution

We want to acknowledge and thank the following authors/entities who have graciously made their work available for remixing, reusing, and adapting this text:

Biswas-Diener, R. & Thin, N. (2020). Culture. In R. Biswas-Diener & E. Diener (Eds), Noba textbook series: Psychology. Champaign, IL: DEF publishers. Retrieved from http://noba.to/y9xcptqw

L D Worthy; T Lavigne; and F Romero. (2025). Psychology and culture. Phoenix, AZ: MMOER. Retrieved from https://open.maricopa.edu/culturepsychology/

OpenStax College. (2020). Psychology. Retrieved from https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/8423

Rio Salado College. (2020). Psychology and Culture PSY132. Riolearn. https://matrix.riosalado.edu/RioWebApps/Public/Rio.SyllabusDefinition.UI/MiniSyllabusRender.aspx?courseId=PSY132&specialtyCode=&instructionMode=IN&startDate=08-24-2020&termCode=4206&sectionNum=41763

Special thanks

• Paula Crossman (Library Faculty) for copyediting, formatting of the Canvas course and the Pressbook, research, text revisions, H5P creation, and assistance with Creative Commons licensing
• Paulina Post (PT OER specialist) for assistance in copyediting and formatting the Canvas course and the Pressbook
• Sam Fraulino (Senior Software Developer-Instructional Multi-Media Design) for making our book cover image