This field-leading text puts psychological theories and concepts into a cross-cultural framework that invites you to discover, question, challenge, and ultimately understand the relationship between culture and psychology through exploration of such topics as changing gender roles, sexuality, health, aggression, personality, and mate selection. It all adds up to a text that will leave you with a deeper, more complex understanding of the nature of culture, its relationship to psychological processes, and the differences and similarities between cultures in our increasingly globalized world.
Table of Contents:
1. An Introduction to Culture and Psychology.
2. Cross-Cultural Research Methods.
3. Enculturation.
4. Culture and Development.
5. Culture, Self, and Identity.
6. Culture and Personality.
7. Culture and Gender.
8. Culture and Cognition.
9. Culture and Emotion.
10. Culture and Language.
11. Culture and Physical Health.
12. Culture and Psychological Disorders.
13. Culture and Psychological Treatment.
14. Culture and Social Behavior.
15. Culture and Organizations.
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David Matsumoto
David Matsumoto 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. His books include well-known titles such as the APA HANDBOOK OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION, NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION: SCIENCE AND APPLICATION, THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF PSYCHOLOGY, CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY, THE APA HANDBOOK OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION, THE APA HANDBOOK OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION and THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY. He is the recipient of many awards and honors in the field of psychology and is a fellow of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science and the International Academy of Intercultural Research. He is the series editor for Cambridge University Press' series on Culture and Psychology and former editor-in-chief for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has been president and CEO of Humintell since its founding in 2009.
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Linda Juang
Linda Juang is a professor of education at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She earned her B.A. in child development from the University of Minnesota and her M.A. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Michigan State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Jena. She has taught at San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Barbara and the Technical University of Berlin. Her research focuses on adolescent development in family, school and cultural contexts. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters concerning ethnic-racial identity, discrimination, acculturation and the well-being of adolescents and young adults. She is currently an associate editor for the journals Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and Infant and Child Development.
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Based on reviewer feedback, pedagogical changes have been made in each chapter to make the text more accessible to students, including narrative revisions to improve the flow of the material as well as additional tables and figures to clarify the content.
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Updated content incorporates recent developments, includes more recent research published within the last few years, and highlights new theoretical and methodological innovations.
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References have been updated in all chapters.
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Updated throughout, the book incorporates recent developments in culture and psychology, includes recent research published within the last few years, and highlights new theoretical and methodological innovations.
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Based on feedback from instructors, this edition includes new in-text learning aids to help you grasp key points, revisions to the narrative to enhance readability, and more tables and figures to clarify the concepts and theories.
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Featuring a strong psychology research base, the book presents the latest findings in cross-cultural and multicultural issues, including coverage of psychological disorders, mental health, enculturation, and psychotherapy.
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The book includes distinctive chapters on culture, language, communication, enculturation, and culture and developmental processes.
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Comprehensive end-of-chapter summaries/conclusions and glossaries reinforce key concepts and facilitate study and review.
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A thematic framework helps you explore the commonalities as well as the differences among cultures.
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This book provides comprehensive coverage of the most up-to-date and important studies available in cross-cultural literature.
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End-of-chapter conclusions and glossaries make key concepts easier to remember and reference as you review chapter material.
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