Amplification of the key term `culture" is advocated for the field of cross-cultural psychology. A model drawn from the study of semiotics suggests the way in which this can be done in cross-cultural psychology. The pursuit of what is meant by culture helps us to merge with the parent discipline, and goes beyond the aspect of comparison into the notion of a cultural psychology. Various tendencies within the mainstream of psychology itself are discussed, which would point to the direction of a meeting ground in which cross-cultural psychology could find more breadth and depth of meaning.
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