Books in the Advances in Cultural Psychology series

Cultural psychology of today is an attempt to advance the program of research that was charted out by Wilhelm Wundt - yet at times we are carefully avoiding direct recognition of such continuity. This book presents a theory of culture in psychology since Wilhelm Wundt's ""Volkerpsychologie"" of the first decades of the twentieth century.

The dynamics of trust and distrust are central to understanding modern society. The collection of papers in this book questions the diverse ways in which the concept of trust has been previously used, and advances a coherent theorisation of the socio-cultural dynamics of trust and distrust.

Cultural psychology is in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the central aspect of any science - its methodology - undergoes revolutionary transformation. By looking to the history of how holistic ideas might help our investigations, this book shows how contemporary science has something to learn from its own history.

Cultural psychology is in a phase of rapid growth. Innovating Genesis is an example of how the central aspect of any science - its methodology - undergoes revolutionary transformation. By looking to the history of how holistic ideas might help our investigations, this book shows how contemporary science has something to learn from its own history.

Umwelt, literally 'outer-world', is the study of the organism in relation to the world around it, as well as the meaning that the world holds for that organism. This book examines unique aspects of the natural world by relating the inner world of the subject and the objects to which that organism attends.