Dr. Lusine Grigoryan

Cross-cultural research in psychology has traditionally been done by informal networks of collaborators, with little to no funding and enabled purely by the good will of the contributing researchers. Such networks have existed since at least the 1970s. “Big team science” is a recent term that emerged in the open science movement, as a response to the replicability crisis in psychology when the field fully recognized the value of large-scale collaborative networks. “Big team science” tends to be better funded and often published in more prestigious journals. The two worlds of cross-cultural psychology and of big team science exist almost independently, with little overlap. I will discuss my experience of leading a research project where these two worlds came together. The “Dignity Honor Face” project that aimed to develop a culturally informed measure of dignity, honor, and face cultural logics and test their links to prosociality, was conceived and proposed by a team of cross-cultural psychologists and administered by the Psychological Science Accelerator, an organization that plays a central role in the open science movement. I will discuss the challenges of running a project at the intersection of these two worlds and what we can learn from each other to advance psychological science towards more generalizability, openness, and cultural sensitivity.