Books in the Culture and Psychology series

With the growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors, the field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to a science of cultural processes. This book lays the theoretical foundation for this development by proposing an original process model of culture.

Comparing psychological variation across cultures requires accurate and appropriate methods. This book highlights methodological developments that promise to improve the work of social and behavioral scientists and practitioners. It covers acculturation and identity, individual differences, and features perspectives on future themes and challenges.

Comparing psychological variation across cultures requires accurate and appropriate methods. This book highlights methodological developments that promise to improve the work of social and behavioral scientists and practitioners. It covers acculturation and identity, individual differences, and features perspectives on future themes and challenges.

This book will be useful to teachers of psychology across a broad range of courses in the various subfields of the discipline. It provides both content and teaching ideas and aids to support the integration of cultural and cross-cultural information in the teaching of mainstream psychology courses.

Using evolutionary psychology, Fischer develops a holistic model of personality that includes both what we do (our personality traits) and what motivates us (our values). This model is used to explain how and why people differ around the world and how genes, economics, social conditions, and climate jointly shape personality.

The nature/nurture question is an age-old problem. By taking into account brain physiology on the one hand, and the developmental processes that shape the brain on the other, this book presents a compelling unifying theory of which brain modules can be innate and which cannot.

The contributors to this volume explore the perils and promise of the self in the modern world. Their shared focus is on subjectivity as a dialectic of self and other, or individual and society, and how the defining tensions of subjectivity are reflected in contemporary forms of individualism, identity, autonomy, social connection, and political consciousness.

Human psychology is deeply rooted in the culture in which people live. Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology introduces a revolutionary approach for studying cultural psychology. Drawing on novel computational tools and in-depth case studies, Professor Yair Neuman offers thought-provoking answers to questions such as: how are thought and language deeply related? How can computers help us to understand different cultures? How can computers assist military intelligence in identifying vengeful intentions? And how is our concept of 'love' rooted in our basic embodied experience? Written by a leading interdisciplinary researcher this book is a 'tour-de-force' which will be of interest to a variety of researchers, students and practitioners in psychology as well as an interdisciplinary audience with an interest in the intricate web weaved between the human psyche and its cultural context.

Explains how cultural information like for example values, are transferred from one generation to the next within the family, covers psychological, developmental, social, and methodological research . An ideal source of information for those interested in cultural and family issues, in disciplines such as psychology, education, social and behavioral sciences.

All culturally diverse societies ask the same question: 'how shall we all live together?' By examining three principles of intercultural relations in seventeen societies, employing common conceptual and empirical frameworks, and exploring mutual relationships between dominant/national and non-dominant/ethnic groups, this book offers an answer to that fundamental and topical question.

With the growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors, the field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to a science of cultural processes. This book lays the theoretical foundation for this development by proposing an original process model of culture.

Based on a decade of innovative research, Van de Vliert argues that climate and affluence influence each other's impact on culture. This is the first report of a systematic series of studies on climate's consequences for cultures around the globe, covering many components of culture.

Explains how cultural information like for example values, are transferred from one generation to the next within the family, covers psychological, developmental, social, and methodological research . An ideal source of information for those interested in cultural and family issues, in disciplines such as psychology, education, social and behavioral sciences.

All culturally diverse societies ask the same question: 'how shall we all live together?' By examining three principles of intercultural relations in seventeen societies, employing common conceptual and empirical frameworks, and exploring mutual relationships between dominant/national and non-dominant/ethnic groups, this book offers an answer to that fundamental and topical question.

Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology provides state-of-the-art knowledge about the methodological problems that need to be addressed if a researcher is to conduct valid and reliable cross-cultural research. It also offers practical advice and examples of solutions to those problems and is a must-read for any student of culture.

Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology provides state-of-the-art knowledge about the methodological problems that need to be addressed if a researcher is to conduct valid and reliable cross-cultural research. It also offers practical advice and examples of solutions to those problems and is a must-read for any student of culture.