The Handbook of Culture and Psychology

by David Matsumoto (Editor)

Overview

In this handbook, eminent authors in cross-cultural psychology provide a state-of-the-art review of selected areas and topics within the field. Each chapter reviews not only the latest research in its respective area, but also goes beyond such reviews in synthesizing and integrating across areas. Collectively, the chapters presented in this book provide a review of where cross-cultural psychology has been, where it is now, where it is headed in the future, and how to get there. It is a unique and timely contribution that should serve as a valuable reference and guide for beginning researchers and scholars alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198030201
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/20/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

David Matsumoto is Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Culture and the Psychology Curriculum: Foundations and Resources
Walter J. Lonner, Kenneth D. Keith, and David Matsumoto

Chapter 2 Traveling From the Past into the Future of Cross-Cultural Psychology: A Personal-Scientific Journey
Michael Harris Bond

Chapter 3 Dimensions of Cultural Variation
Peter B. Smith

Chapter 4 Cold, Heat, Wealth, and Culture
Evert Van de Vliert and Dejun Tony Kong

Chapter 5 What is Culture For?
Yoshihisa Kashima

Chapter 6 Research Methods
Jia He and Fons J.R. van de Vijver

Chapter 7 Culture, Context, and Development
Harry W. Gardiner

Chapter 8 The Role of Emotions in Socialization Processes Across Cultures: Implications for Theory and Practice
Heidi Keller

Chapter 9 Gender and Culture
Deborah L. Best and Angelica R. Puzio

Chapter 10 Culture and Moral Development
Joan G. Miller, Matthew Wice, and Namrata Goyal

Chapter 11 Culture and Cognition
Qi Wang and Sawa Senzaki

Chapter 12 Culture and Emotion: Integrating Biological Universality with Cultural Specificity
David Matsumoto and Hyisung C. Hwang

Chapter 13 Culture and Personality
Jüri Allik and Anu Realo

Chapter 14 Abnormal Psychology and Culture
Junko Tanaka-Matsumi

Chapter 15 Culture and Psychological Interventions
Cindy Y. Huang and Nolan Zane

Chapter 16 Control Orientations in the East and West
Susumu Yamaguchi and Takafumi Sawaumi

Chapter 17 The Culturally Situated Self
Amir Rosenmann and Jenny Kurman

Chapter 18 Social Representations of History as Common Ground for Processes of Intergroup Relations and the Content of Social Identities
James H. Liu and Dario Páez

Chapter 19 Multicultural Identities
Ying-yi Hong and Siran Zhan

Chapter 20 Affect, Behavior, Cognition and Development: Adding to the Alphabet of Acculturation
Colleen Ward and Agnes Szabo

Chapter 21 Emerging Areas
Joan Y. Chiao and Katherine D. Blizinsky

Chapter 22 Religion and Related Morality Across Cultures
Vassilis Saroglou

Chapter 23 Living in a Changing World: The Change of Culture and Psychology
Huajian Cai, Zihang Huang, and Yiming Jing

Editorial Reviews

"The essays are very thoroughly researched and written in logical and comprehensive styles... An interesting, up-to-date examination of a very appropriate, current topic that concerns not only current conditions but their implications for the future." — CHOICE

"The updated second edition of The Handbook of Culture and Psychology includes core and emerging topics in the field of cross-cultural psychology written by the field's leading scholars. In an era of seemingly endless contradictions and tensions between nationalism and globalization, this book is an invaluable collection of critical but balanced reviews of cultural differences and universal psychological attributes, including development, personality, cognition, emotion, gender, religion, interventions, intergroup relations, and multicultural identities. This book is both an accessible introduction to this growing and diverse science and a state-of-the-art compendium for scholars of cross-cultural psychology and related disciplines."

— Antonio Terracciano, Professor, Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine, Florida State University

"Perhaps the single most important but widely ignored contextual variable in psychology is culture. For many years, cultural psychologists have shown how little it is possible to understand about human behavior when that behavior is taken outside of its cultural context. Vast universal generalizations have been proposed about behavior that, because of limited sampling of participants, turns out to be culturally specific rather than universal. Matsumoto and Hwang's Handbook of Culture and Psychology (second edition) will go a long way toward addressing the importance and nature of cultural variables that influence human thoughts, feelings, and behavior. I recommend the book highly to anyone who wants to understand behavior in its cultural context, not just in the cultural vacuum that so often leads to misleading and even false generalizations."

— Robert J. Sternberg, Professor of Human Development, Cornell University

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