Norasakkunkit & Uchida (2014)
Globalization has had both positive and negative effects on behavior around the world. Psychologists are interested in the interaction between an individual's local culture - that is, the culture into which they are enculturated - and the global culture that they are exposed to through the media and the Internet (acculturation). The following study looks at a Japanese phenomenon known as hikikomori. It is a disorder...