section_path: Key topics by field: sociocultural/Medical, nutritional, psychological, cognitive and transpersonal/Psychological
section_name: Psychological
paragraph_text: Psychological
  
  Psychological anthropology is an interdisciplinary subfield of anthropology that studies the interaction of cultural and mental processes. This subfield tends to focus on ways in which humans' development and enculturation within a particular cultural group – with its own history, language, practices, and conceptual categories – shape processes of human cognition, emotion, perception, motivation, and mental health. It also examines how the understanding of cognition, emotion, motivation, and similar psychological processes inform or constrain our models of cultural and social processes.