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…

  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…

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?

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. 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…

  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. General introduction to cultural transmission: developmental psychological, social and methodological aspects – Ute Schönpflug 2. Cultural transmission: a short history of research and theory – Ute Schönpflug Part I. Evolutionary Perspective: 3. Cultural transmission: a view from chimpanzees and human infants  – Michael Tomasello 4. Transmission, self-organization and the emergence of…

  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…

  In this new book top specialists address theoretical, methodological, and empirical multilevel models as they relate to the analysis of individual and cultural data. Divided into four parts, the book opens with the basic conceptual and theoretical issues in multilevel research, including the fallacies of such research. Part II describes the methodological aspects of…

  This work provides a healthy, comprehensive counterpoint to the ethnocentrism engrained in the widespread belief that scientific knowledge about education is typically Western. Stressing that the Western ‘minority’ perspective cannot hold true for the ‘majority’ of the world population situated outside Europe and North America, this edited volume explores traditional educational theories and practices…