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This book describes the continued evolution and advancement of cultural and cross-cultural psychology. Renowned authors review the state-of-the-art in well-studied areas such as development, cognition, emotion, personality, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and acculturation, as well as emerging areas such as multicultural identities, cultural neuroscience, and religion. The book is a must read for all culturally informed scholars.
List 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
About the author
David Matsumoto is a renowned expert in the fields of emotion, nonverbal behavior, deception, and culture. He has been a Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 1989 and is the Founder and Director of SFSU's Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory. He is the recipient of many awards and honors in the field of psychology and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the International Academy of Intercultural Research. He has been Director of Humintell (www.humintell.com) since its founding in 2009.
Hyisung C. Hwang is a senior research scientist, teacher, and lecturer in cross-cultural psychology. Her research interests are in emotion, nonverbal behavior, and culture. She has also co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on nonverbal behavior and culture.
Summary
Cultural and cross-cultural psychology and research continue to make strong contributions to mainstream psychology. Researchers and theoreticians from all parts of the globe increasingly contribute to this endeavor, enabling cultural and cross-cultural psychology and research to be one of the most exciting areas of study in psychology. This book describes the continued evolution and advancement of the main research domains of cultural and cross-cultural psychology. Renowned authors not only review the state-of-the-art in their respective fields but also describe the challenges and opportunities that their respective research domains face in the future.
New chapters cover the teaching of a culturally informed psychology and the increasing changes and advancements of cultures and societies around the world and their impact on individual psychologies. This volume covers standard areas of well-studied concepts such as development, cognition, emotion, personality, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and acculturation, as well as emerging areas such as multicultural identities, cultural neuroscience, and religion. It is a must read for all culturally informed scholars, both beginning and experienced.
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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.
