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More About This Title Cross-Cultural Psychology - Contemporary Themesand Perspectives, 2nd Edition
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Explains and explores the important areas of psychology through a cultural perspective
This book addresses key areas of psychology, placing them in cultural perspective via a comprehensive overview of current work integrating culture across the major subfields of psychological science. Chapters explore the relation of culture to psychological phenomena, starting with introductory and research foundations, and moving to clinical and social principles and applications. It covers the subfields that are of most importance to undergraduates and beginning graduates, such as consciousness, development, cognition, intelligence, personality, research methods, statistics, gender, personality, health, and well-being.
Cross-Cultural Psychology: Contemporary Themes and Perspectives, 2nd Edition is richly documented with research findings and examples from many cultures, illuminating the strengths and limitations of North American psychology, while also highlighting the diversity and vitality of this fascinating field. The book offers many new chapters, in addition to fully updated ones from the previous edition. Starting with basic concepts in the subject, the book offers chapters covering ethnocentrism, diversity, evolutionary psychology, and development across cultures. It also examines education, dreams, language and communication issues, sex roles, happiness, attractiveness, and more.
- Provides a comprehensive overview of current work integrating culture across major subfields of psychological science
- Offers introductory chapters on topics such as cultural psychology and ethnocentrism, which provide a foundation for more specialized chapters in development, education, cognition, and beyond
- Features new chapters in areas such as cultural competence, culture and dreams, education across cultures, abnormality across cultures, and evolutionary psychology
- Presents chapters by some of the leading contributors to the fields of cultural and cross- cultural psychology
Cross-Cultural Psychology: Contemporary Themes and Perspectives, 2nd Edition is an ideal book for undergraduate and graduate courses in cultural or cross-cultural psychology.
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Kenneth Keith, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of San Diego. He has taught introductory psychology, research methods, history and systems of psychology, and cross-cultural psychology. His research interests include cross-cultural psychology, quality of life, intellectual disability, and the teaching of psychology. Keith is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions on Teaching and International Psychology), the Western Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science, and a member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, former President of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, and former Chief Reader for the College Board Advanced Placement Psychology program.
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List of Contributors
Foreword by Christin-Melanie Vauclair
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Basic Concepts
1 Psychology and Culture: An Introduction
Kenneth D. Keith
2 Ethnocentrism: Seeing the World from Where We Stand
Kenneth D. Keith
3 Cross-Cultural Competence
Chi-Yue Chiu and Yuanyuan Shi
Part II Culture, Psychological Science, and Research Methods
4 Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Cross-Cultural Research
Bernard C. Beins
5 The Inextricable Link Between Culture and Statistics
Susan A. Nolan and Andrew F. Simon
6 Infusing Diversity into Research Methods = Good Science
Linda M. Woolf and Michael R. Hulsizer
7 Evolution and Cross-Cultural Psychology
Afshin Gharib
Part III Development
8 Child Development Across Cultures
Adriana Molitor and Hui-Chin Hsu
9 Adolescent Development in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Judith Gibbons and Katelyn Poelker
10 Cultural Variations in Perceptions of Aging
James T. Gire
Part IV Cognition
11 Culture and Cognition
Michael Cole and Martin Packer
12 Conceptions and Approaches to Education Across Cultures
Ji-Yeon O. Jo and Jungmin Kwon
13 Cross-Cultural Differences in Visual Perception of Color, Illusions, Depth, and Pictures
William L. Phillips
14 International Developments Influencing the Field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Robert L. Schalock and Miguel Ángel Verdugo
Part V Consciousness
15 Culture and Dreams
Roger Ivar Lohmann
16 Consciousness and Culture
Kenneth D. Keith
Part VI Language and Communication
17 Language and Culture: Commonality, Variation, and Mistaken Assumptions
David S. Kreiner
18 Crossing Boundaries: Cross-Cultural Communication
Leeva C. Chung
Part VII Gender and Sex Roles
19 Women Across Cultures
Hilary M. Lips and Katie M. Lawson
20 Stability or Change? A Cross-Cultural Look at Attitudes Toward Sexual and Gender Identity Minorities
Mary E. Kite, LaCount Togans, and Tollie J. Schultz
Part VIII Health, Disorders, and Treatment
21 Cultural Influences on Health
Regan A. R. Gurung
22 Perspectives of Psychopathology Across Cultures and Among Indigenous Societies
Josephine C. H. Tan
23 Culture and Psychotherapy: Searching for an Empirically-Supported Relationship
Junko Tanaka-Matsumi
Part IX Emotion, Well-Being, and Quality of Life
24 Culture, Emotion, and Expression
David Matsumoto and Hyi Sung Hwang
25 Well-Being Across Cultures: Issues of Measurement and the Interpretation of Data
Robert Cummins
26 Happiness Around the World
Jennifer Zwolinski
Part X Social Psychology
27 Social Influence: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Richard L. Miller and Tyler Collette
28 Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Attribution
Kristy K. Dean and Anne M. Koenig
29 The Importance of Attractiveness Across Cultures
Stephanie L. Anderson
30 Multicultural Identity Development: Theory and Research
Tyler Collette and Richard L. Miller
31 Cross-Cultural Organizational Psychology: An African Perspective
Terence Jackson
Part XI Personality
32 Culture and Theories of Personality: Western, Confucian, and Buddhist Perspectives
Peter J. Giordano
33 The Five-Factor Model: Contemporary Personality Theory
Irina A. Novikova and Alexandra A. Vorobeyva
Part XII Concluding Thoughts
34 Culture and Psychology: Prospects and Possibilities
Kenneth D. Keith
Index
