Content Introduction. The Struggle for Happiness and Autonomy in Personal and Cultural contexts: An Overview Valery I. Chirkov, Kennon M. Sheldon, and Richard M. Ryan Part 1. A Theoretical Context of Human Autonomy, People’s Well-Being, and Happiness 1. Positive Psychology and Self-Determination Theory: A Natural Interface Kennon M. Sheldon and Richard M. Ryan  2.…

Description In recent years China has witnessed unprecedented economic growth, emerging as a powerful, influential player on the global stage. Now, more than ever, there is a great interest and need within the West to better understand the psychological and social processes that characterize Chinese people. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology is the first book of…

Topics covered include: Psychological Adjustment and Clinical Issues, Family Interaction and Styles of Parenting, Resilience and Coping with Perceived Rejection, Comparative Studies of Parental Acceptance-Rejection, Methodological Issues. 

Table of Contents: 1. How to avoid fooling ourselves 2. Information processing 3. Fooling ourselves across cultures 4. Fooling ourselves in politics 5. Fooling ourselves and religions 6. Fooling ourselves in Terrorism 7. What can we do?

  About the Book This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume, which include theoretical approaches to cross-cultural research, the dimensions of national cultures and their measurement, ecological and…

  About the Book   Everyone, everyday, everywhere has to cope with climatic cold or heat to satisfy survival needs, using money. This point of departure led to a decade of innovative research on the basis of the tenet that climate and affluence influence each other’s impact on culture. Evert Van de Vliert discovered survival…

  While value-based frameworks have offered revealing insights about culture, other conceptualtools need to be explored and deployed for a comprehensive understanding of both culture and individuals and how culture shapes individual processes and outcomes. To achieve this end, the authors and editors propose the construct of social axioms to augment values in interpreting culture…

  The 6th edition contains various perspectives on counseling individuals from numerous diverse cultural contexts. In 24 chapters the contributors discuss the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling, highlighting work with groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Arabs and Muslims, refugees, victims of disasters, individuals experiencing the consequences…

  Table of Contents 1. Defining and measuring social change2. The myth of modernisation?3. More beautiful than a monkey: the achievement of intimacy4. Friends and social networks5. Sex and the modern city6. Marriage and the family7. Modeling social change and relationships Goodwin critically reviews the literature on modernisation and contemporary relationships, challenging simplistic conclusions about…

  DescriptionIn recent years there has been a wealth of new research in cognition, particularly in relation to supporting theoretical constructs about how cognitions are formed, processed, reinforced, and how they then affect behavior. Many of these theories have arisen and been tested in geographic isolation. It remains to be seen whether theories that purport…