Advances in Culture and Psychology (Vol. 1)

Author(s) Michele J. Gelfand, Chi-yue Chiu, & Ying-Yi Hong (Eds.)

2010, Oxford University Press

  IACCP member discount: click here Table of Contents Foreword Introduction Human Culture in Evolutionary PerspectiveMichael Tomasello Culture, Emotion, and ExpressionDavid Matsumoto and Hyi-Sung Hwang Infectious Disease and the Creation of CultureMark Schaller and Damian R. Murray Attachment, Learning and Coping: The Interplay of Cultural Similarities and DifferencesFred Rothbaum, Gilda Morelli, and Natalie Rusk Culturally…

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Human Autonomy in Cross-Cultural Context: Perspectives on the Psychology of Agency, Freedom, and Well-Being

Author(s) Valery Chirkov, Richard Ryan, & Kennon Sheldon (Eds.)

2010, Springer

  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.…

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Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology

Author(s) Bond, M. H. (Ed.)

2010, Oxford University Press

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…

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Development of Geocentric Spatial Language and Cognition: An Eco-cultural Perspective

Author(s) Pierre R. Dasen & Ramesh C. Mishra

2010, Cambridge University Press

  Click here to read an online review by Gustav Jahoda Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in relation to our body to talk about small-scale space (‘put the knife on the right of the plate and the fork on the left’), while geocentric spatial language uses geographic coordinates (‘put the knife to the east, and…

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Psychological Aspects of Social Axioms – Understanding Global Belief Systems

Author(s) Kwok Leung, Michael Harris Bond (Eds)

2009, Springer

  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…

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Climate, Affluence, and Culture

Author(s) Evert Van de Vliert

2009, Cambridge University Press.

  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…

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Understanding Culture – Theory, Research, and Application

Author(s) Robert S. Wyer, Chi-yue Chiu, Ying-yi Hong (Editors)

2009, Psychology Press

  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…

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Cultural Intelligence: Living and Working Globally

Author(s) David C. Thomas & Kerr Inkson

2009, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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. 

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Handbook of Motivation and Cognition Across Cultures

Author(s) Richard Sorrentino and Susumu Yamaguchi (Eds.)

2008, Elsevier

  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…

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