How Do Anthropologists Understand Other People's Psychologies?

How do anthropologists understand other people’s psychologies? It is believed that humans are both biological and cultural beings, making them biocultural. Despite being fairly new to the world of anthropology, the biocultural perspective has built on history of research on how cultural and social influences shape the psychology, emotion, and personality, of the individual. Anthropologists have made sense of individual psychologies through many different theories.
A good starting place on how anthropologists have made sense of individual psychologies is with the theory on the indivdual. We tend to think individual persons are like onions: peel back the layers from the surface and underneath humans are all organisms of a certain anatomy, physiology, and cognition. The layers nearest to
Psychological anthropology (the subfield of anthropology that studies psychological states and conditions) has contributed important work in the studying of the individual. Psychological anthropology came from culture and personality school. The culture and personality school studied how the individual experience, personality traits, and thought patterns are shaped through ways of parenting, social institutions, and cultural ideologies. Most of the studies tried to show that environment shaped psychologies rather than biology (nature over nurture). Important anthropologist and a student of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, argued for this. Both Boas and Benedict believed that culture is more powerful than biology in the process of how and why individuals develop their personalities. More focused on the individual rather than a group, Ruth promoted the idea that cultures encourage individuals to develop distinct personality traits. Her perspective on the relationship between the individual and culture is that the individual is very malleable and easily shaped by the society they are born