Abstract: Cultural and cross-cultural psychology has moved from documenting cultural differences towards exploring the interaction of culture and psyche. Based on a dynamic constructivist approach, Hong and her colleagues proposed a model of cultural frame switching (CFS) which assumes bicultural individuals could navigate between their ethnic and host cultures. CFS is affected by lay theory of race and bicultural identity integration (BII). Multicultural experience, which is accumulated by CFS, can enhance an individual’s creativity and cognitive complexity, and may lead to cultural stereotyping and cultural exclusion. Future studies should pay much attention to the applicability of CFS for majority groups. The implications of CFS model to investigating the multicultural identities and their conflict of ethnic minorities in China are discussed.

Key words: Cultural Frame Switching (CFS), dynamic constructivist approach, multicultural experiences, acculturation