跨文化研究，有时被称为全文化研究或比较研究，是人类学和姐妹科学（社会学、心理学、经济学、政治学）的一个专业，它利用来自许多社会的实地数据来检验人类行为的范围，并测试人类行为和文化的假设。跨文化研究是跨文化比较的第三种形式。第一个是案例研究的比较，第二个是共同推导变体之间的控制比较，[需要澄清]，第三个是案例样本中的比较。与比较研究不同的是，研究少数社会的相似特征，跨文化研究使用足够大的样本，以便进行统计分析，以显示相关特征之间的关系或缺乏关系。这些研究是对人种学数据的调查。跨文化研究广泛应用于社会科学，尤其是文化人类学和心理学。
Cross-cultural studies, sometimes called holocultural studies or comparative studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences (sociology, psychology, economics, political science) that uses field data from many societies to examine the scope of human behavior and test hypotheses about human behavior and culture. Cross-cultural studies is the third form of cross-cultural comparisons. The first is comparison of case studies, the second is controlled comparison among variants of a common derivation,[clarification needed] and the third is comparison within a sample of cases. Unlike comparative studies, which examines similar characteristics of a few societies, cross-cultural studies uses a sufficiently large sample so that statistical analysis can be made to show relationships or lack of relationships between the traits in question. These studies are surveys of ethnographic data.Cross-cultural studies are applied widely in the social sciences, particularly in cultural anthropology and psychology.
