Introduction and Overview

Editors

Causes of Culture: National Differences in Cultural Embeddedness

Shalom H. Schwartz

Reflections on Two of Our Early Ancestors

Gustav Jahoda

Cultures of Infancy. The Foundation of Developmental Pathways

Heidi Keller

From Homer to the 21st Century: Charting the Emergence of the Structure of Interpersonal Meaning

John Adamopoulos

Rogelio Díaz-Guerrero: A Legacy of Psychological Creation and Research

Rolando Diaz-Loving & Ignacio Lozano

The IACCP Archives Project

John W. Berry & Walter J. Lonner

Beyond Indigenization: International Dissemination of Research by Majority-World Psychologists

John G. Adair, Yoshi Kashima, Maria Regina Maluf & Janak Pandey

YouTube, the Internet and IACCP: Opportunities and Challenges for Cross-Cultural Psychology

William K. Gabrenya Jr., Nathalie van Meurs & Ronald Fischer

Exploring the Consequences of Biculturalism: Cognitive Complexity

Verónica Benet-Martínez & Fiona Lee

Comparative Study on Concept Construction for Violence, Intelligence and Religion in Early Adolescence in the Parisian Suburbs

Annamária Lammel & Eduardo Márquez

Effects of Reading Direction on Visuospatial Organization: A Critical Review

Sylvie Chokron, Seta Kazandjian & Maria De Agostini

Geocentric Gestures as a Research Tool

Pierre R. Dasen, Nilima Changkakoti, Milena Abbiati, Shanta Niraula, Ramesh C. Mishra & Harold Foy

Geocentric Gestural Deixis among Yucatec Maya (Quintana Roo, México)

Olivier Le Guen

An Examination of Acquiescent Response Styles in Cross-Cultural Research

Ronald Fischer, Johnny R. J. Fontaine, Fons J. R. van de Vijver & Dianne A. van Hemert

Acquiescence and Extremity in Cross-National Surveys: Domain Dependence and Country-Level Correlates

Tobias K. Van Dijk, Femke Datema, Anne-Lieke J. H. F. Piggen, Stephanie C. M. Welten & Fons J. R. Van de Vijver

Reducing Bias in Cross-Cultural Factor Analysis through a Statistical Technique for Metric Adjustment: Factor Solutions for Quintets and Quartets of Countries

Kostas Mylonas

Enhancing Psychological Assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa through Participant Consultation

Amina Abubakar, Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Anneloes van Baar, Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo & Penny Holding

Relating Self-Complexity to Coping and Adaptation with Chinese College Students: A New Measurement Perspective

Wenshu Luo & David Watkins

Taking Advantage of the Circular Structure of Human Values

Sipko E. Huismans & Wijbrandt H. van Schuur

Meaning Constitution Analysis: A Phenomenological Approach to Research in Human Sciences

Roger B. Sages & Jonas Lundsten

Temporal Orientation and its Relationships with Organizationally Valued Outcomes: Results from a 14 Country Investigation

Tejinder K. Billing et al.

Intergenerational Transmission of Values in Different Cultural Contexts: A Study in Germany and Indonesia

Isabelle Albert, Gisela Trommsdorff & Lieke Wisnubrata

Dimensions of Social Axioms and Alternative Country-Clustering Methods

Aikaterini Gari, Kostas Mylonas & Penny Panagiotopoulou

Predicting Opposition towards Immigration: Economic Resources, Social Resources and Moral Principles

Alice Ramos & Jorge Vala

Are Attitudes of Young Portuguese towards Immigration also Hardening? A Comparison between 1999 and 2006

Félix Neto

Acculturation Research: Proxies as Sources of Concept Obfuscation

Edison Trickett, Irena Persky & Susan Ryerson Espino

National and European Identities of Bulgarian and Dutch Students

Velichko Valchev & Fons J. R. van de Vijver

South Asians in Scandinavia: Diasporic Identity Processes

Rashmi Singla

Culture, Self-construal and Social Cognition: Evidence from Cross-Cultural and Priming Studies

Ulrich Kühnen

Subcultural Influences on Self-attitudes: The Expression of Low Self-esteem in Race/ethnicity-, Age-, Gender-, Social class-, and Generation-differentiated Subgroups

Howard B. Kaplan, Rachel E. Kaplan & Diane S. Kaplan

Uncertainty Orientation: A Theory of Self-Regulation Within and Across Cultures as Related to Cognition

Andrew C. H. Szeto, Richard M. Sorrentino, Satoru Yasunaga, Yasunao Otsubo & John Nezlek

Strategies of Friendship Maintenance in Mexico: Gender Differences

Claudia López Becerra, Isabel Reyes Lagunes & Sofia Rivera Aragón

Cultural Conception of Friendship: What do Ecuadorians and Poles Expect from a Friend?

Zuzanna Wisniewska & Pawel Boski

An Emerging Integration of Universal and Culturally Specific Psychologies and its Implications for the Study of Psychopathology

Gregory T. Smith, Nichea S. Spillane & Agnes M. Stairs

Early Childhood Services and Supports in the Context of Cultural Community Psychology

Richard N. Roberts

Research and Action on Intimate Partner Violence: Interdisciplinary Convergence of Cultural Community Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology

Eric S. Mankowski, Gino Galvez & Nancy Glass

Developing Social Policy in a Multi-Cultural Setting: the Role of Applied Cross-Cultural Psychology

Vassos Gavriel

Dimensions of Well-Being: A Cross-Cultural Study in European Neighborhoods

Penny Panagiotopoulou, Aikaterini Gari & Sophia Christakopoulou

Education in Cross-Cultural Settings: Psychological Underpinnings of Achievement in Papua New Guinea

Genevieve F. Nelson, Jasmine Green, Dennis M. McInerney, Martin Dowson & Andrew C. Schauble

Innovative Disaster Counseling Approaches with Children and Youth

Thomas Demaria & Minna Barrett