Synopses & Reviews
With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade. From this proliferation of books, chapters, and journal articles, exciting developments have emerged in the relationship of culture to cognitive processes, human development, psychopathology, social behavior, organizational behavior, neuroscience, language, marketing, and other topics. In recognition of this exponential growth, Advances in Culture and Psychology is the first annual series to offer state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research in the growing field of culture and psychology.
The Advances in Culture and Psychology series is:
* Developing an intellectual home for culture and psychology research programs
* Fostering bridges and connections among cultural scholars from across the discipline
* Creating a premier outlet for culture and psychology research
* Publishing articles that reflect the theoretical, methodological, and epistemological diversity in the study of culture and psychology
* Enhancing the collective identity of the culture and psychology field
Comprising chapters from internationally renowned culture scholars and representing diversity in the theory and study of culture within psychology, Advances in Culture and Psychology is an ideal resource for research programs and academics throughout the psychology community.
Review
"The editors have done a thorough job of compiling articles from an array of subfields, each answering questions concerning the degree to which culture may be affecting diverse psychological phenomena. It is clear that the current series has taken into account a wide array of fields that could benefit from considering culture as a potential variable when one is predicting behavior. Ultimately, the series paints an all-encompassing picture of where the field of cultural psychology stands with regard to theory and methodology, and would be ideal for anyone, either scholar or student, interested in how culture interacts with well-studied psychological phenomena." -Jeanette Altarriba, Crystal J. Robinson, PsycCRITIQUES
About the Author
Michele J. Gelfand is Professor of Psychology and Distinguished University Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Chi-yue Chiu is Professor at Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Ying-yi Hong is Professor at Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Professor at the School of Psychology at Beijing Normal University in China.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
The Role of Language and Culture in Universality and Diversity of Human Concepts
Mutsumi Imai and Takahiko Masuda
Chapter 2
Development: The Cultural Solution of Universal Developmental Tasks
Heidi Keller and Joscha Kärtner
Chapter 3
From Chinese to Cross-Cultural Personality Inventory:
A Combined Emic-Etic Approach to Study Personality in Culture
Fanny M. Cheung, Shu Fai Cheung, and Weiqiao Fan
Chapter 4
Cultural Unity and Diversity in Compensatory Control Processes
Aaron C. Kay and Daniel Sullivan
Chapter 5
Creating Cultures Between Arctics and Deserts
Evert Van de Vliert
Chapter 6
Macro Cultural Psychology:
Its Development, Concerns, Politics, and Future Direction
Carl Ratner