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. 

  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…

  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…

This is the second volume of a two volumes series on cultural and gender issues. This book places gender issues into the focus in an exciting and original way. The book consists of 16 chapters written primarily by Polish authors. The authors illustrate the colorful variety and high quality of work done in the crossroad…

Selected Papers from the 1st International Congress on Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection   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…