John W. Berry has received the honor of Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (RSC)
John W. Berry (Chief Research Fellow, CSCR) has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), one of the highest academic honors for Canadian scholars in arts, humanities, and sciences (the RSC is equivalent to the National Academy in some other countries).
John W. Berry is recognized as a founder of cross-cultural and intercultural psychology and has made substantial contributions in these fields. Through his development of an ecocultural framework that conceptualizes the links among habitat, culture, and individual behavior. Prof. Berry has operationalized this framework in series of comparative studies to investigate cognitive style, acculturation, intercultural relations, and multiculturalism, with field studies spanning many regions across the world.