Learn the application process for gaining admittance to a master’s program. Master’s degree programs usually require applicants to pass the graduate record exam and write a Statement of Purpose -- also called a Letter of Intent. Applicants must also hold a bachelor’s degree.
Complete the master’s degree program by fulfilling the particular requirements of the school you attend. Usually, students must earn a certain number of credits and complete a research project or exam.
Send a curriculum vitae and a cover letter to a university that offers classes in cultural psychology. Alternatively, obtain a teaching position at a university that could potentially offer classes on cultural psychology and offer to teach these classes after you are hired. Obtain letters of recommendation from professors with whom you frequently interacted during your college career and who also specialize in cultural psychology or a similar discipline. Give the letters to each university to which you apply.
Read every journal article and book published on cultural psychology. Look for any gaps in the research that could be filled by additional research. Cultural psychologists tend to view their findings as varying from culture to culture, unlike other psychologists who tend to view discoveries as universal. They are interested in how human psychology varies from culture to culture and how culture influences human psychology. Find a research angle that is new and unique to the field.
Develop a methodology for testing your cultural psychology hypothesis. Research methods include observational research, correlational research, true experiments and quasi-experiments. Collect data that serves as evidence to support or refute your hypothesis.
Write a journal article that presents your research. Include an abstract that summarizes the research and provide an introduction to the research, which supplies background knowledge necessary to comprehend the data. Include a methodology that explains how you collected your data, the results, which contain the data collected from the experiment, and a discussion section that explains the implications of the research.
Submit your research on cultural psychology to a recognized journal in the field, ideally to a publication that specializes in cultural psychology such as "Culture & Psychology" or the "Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology."