Editors: Shuang Liu, Adam Komisarof, Zhu Hua, and Levi Obijiofor Publication date: January, 2025 The Sage Handbook of Intercultural Communication offers a global, interdisciplinary, and contextual approach to understanding the complexities of intercultural communication in our diverse and interconnected world. The handbook brings together established theories, methodologies, and practices and provides a comprehensive exploration…

Cultural Psychology and Acculturation Summary This Element offers a new theoretical model of acculturation within the general framework of cultural psychology. It is divided into four sections. First, cross-cultural and cultural orientations are contrasted. The psychology of economic migration (EARN), separate from the psychology of acculturation (LEARN), is the theme of the next section. Berry’s…

Summary Over the past three decades, the population of international students throughout the world has steadily increased. Although university students choose to study in locations other than their home country for a variety of reasons, including professional development and disciplinary training, nearly all education abroad programs have intercultural learning as a central goal. In this…

Advances research on key aspects and themes related to identity in non-Western contexts Examines identity throughout different life stages, such as adolescents, youth, emerging adults, and adults Considers new and adapted perspectives on established theoretical frameworks

Ype H. Poortinga: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Cross-Cultural and Cultural Psychology Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2021 Summary An overview is given of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology, focusing on theory and methodology. In Section 1 historical developments in research are traced; it is found that initially extensive psychological differences tend…

Implications for Societies and Workplaces Editors: Kwantes, Catherine, Kuo, Ben C.H. (Eds.) This book investigates trust in seven different cultural contexts, exploring how societal culture can influence our expectations regarding what may be considered trustworthy within a cultural context. Although the definition of trustworthiness is clear, how it is operationalized and applied in various cultural…

Edited by Michael Bender and Byron Adams   Significant advancements in methodologies and statistical techniques in cross-cultural psychological research abound, but general practice, education, and most researchers in psychology rarely use them. This leads to misinterpretations, misrepresentations, and prejudice. The authors expertly demonstrate the importance of methodological rigor to safeguard appropriate inferences about similarities and…

Draws together concepts & theories in politeness theory and intercultural communication/psychology to analyse the process of relating across cultures Provides a robust model for analysing intercultural interaction from a relational perspective Designed with reader-friendly features, such as detailed concept boxes, research reports, experiential examples, and exercises The book has the following main sections: Conceptual foundations…

Is the World Becoming More Individualistic? Are the Twos Terrible Everywhere? Can a Westerner Think Like an East Asian? What Happens When a Foreigner Adopts an Anglo Name?   The book is designed primarily as a supplemental text for lower-level courses in Psychology, as a way for instructors to inject a (much needed) cross-cultural perspective…

Edited by David Matsumoto and Hyisung C. Hwang Describes the continued evolution and advancement of cultural and cross-cultural psychology Reviews the state of the art in each field as well as challenges and opportunities that we will face in the future Provides deep coverage of concepts such as development, cognition, emotion, personality, psychopathology, psychotherapy, and…

Examines social competencies in early childhood from a cultural perspective Focuses on preschoolers’ social competencies, including how to communicate, understand emotions of other people, and behave prosocially across various situations Discusses how the variability in social worlds shapes children’s competencies Addresses societal and educational challenges triggered by rapidly increased migration around the world This book…

A Mixed Method Study Authors: Erhabor Idemudia, Klaus Boehnke Part of the Social Indicators Research Series book series (SINS, volume 81) Download here

Subseries of SpringerBriefs in Psychology
Series Editors: S. Glazer, C.T. Kwantes
The SpringerBriefs Series in Culture, Organizations, and Work publishes fully developed
conceptual pieces that focus on current state-of-the-art topics and research on the
interface between culture, organizations and work. The series aims to expand upon key
concepts, theories, or ideas that require more development than a typical journal article
permits, but still do not require a full-length book.

Edited by Holly F. MathewsAdriana M. Manago

In the #MeToo era, US women continue to struggle with whether or not to report sexual harassment, while women living in parts of rural Pakistan and Mexico try to pursue educational and employment opportunities without directly refusing parental wishes for them to marry. Despite rapidly changing social and economic conditions worldwide, patriarchal practices remain remarkably widespread and persistent. Noting the need to move beyond a dichotomy of accommodation and resistance, the contributors to this volume draw upon fiel…

Andreas Maercker, Eva Heim, Laurence J. Kirmayer

State-of-the-art knowledge on how culture impacts on the diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic stress and related disorders. Leading experts show:

How culture shapes mental health and recovery
How to integrate culture and context into PTSD theory
How trauma-related distress is experienced and expressed in different cultures
How to integrate cultural dimensions in therapy

Culture across the Curriculum provides a useful handbook for psychology teachers in the major subfields of the discipline. From introductory psychology to the foundations in such areas as social psychology, statistics, research methods, memory, cognition, personality, and development, to such specialized courses as language, sexual minorities, and peace psychology, there is something here for virtually every teacher of psychology. In addition to discussions of the rationale for inclusion of cultural context in their areas of specialization, these experienced teachers also offer advice and ideas for teaching exercises and activities to support the teaching of a psychology of all people.

This book addresses key areas of psychology, placing them in cultural perspective via a comprehensive overview of current work integrating culture across the major subfields of psychological science. Chapters explore the relation of culture to psychological phenomena, starting with introductory and research foundations, and moving to clinical and social principles and applications. It covers the…

V01.1: Theory and Method Vol.2.: Basic Processes and Human Development Vol. 3: Social Behavior and Apllications

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Grandparents in Cultural Context gives a long overdue global view of the changing roles of grandparents. The eleven main chapters are by experts in the Americas, Europe and Russia, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East, and the editors integrate their chapters with previous writings on grandparenthood. Rather than technical or statistical research reports, each…

Edited by Ayse Uskul and Shigehiro Oishi, Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology focuses on the social and economic conditions that impact on every aspect of an individual’s life cycle. This edited collection showcases a variety of approaches to the study of the role of the social and economic environment in human psychological processes, such as:…

Acculturation

This volume presents a conceptual, historical, anthropological, and sociological review of how culture affects our experience and expression of romantic love. What is romantic love and how is it different from and similar to other kinds of love? How is romantic love related to sex and marriage in human history and across contemporary cultures? What…

This volume combines empirical research-based and theoretical perspectives on shame in cultural contexts and from socio-culturally different perspectives, providing new insights and a more comprehensive cultural base for contemporary research and practice in the context of shame. It examines shame from a positive psychology perspective, from the angle of defining the concept as a psychological…

Workplace diversity has become increasingly relevant to academics and practitioners alike. Often, this issue is tackled merely from a business-oriented/managerial point of view. Yet such a single-level perspective fails to acknowledge both the macro-societal context wherein companies and organizations act and the micro-individual dynamics by which individuals construct and affirm their identities in relation to…

The Praeger Handbook of Personality across Cultures represents the first extensive treatment of cross-cultural research on personality in a multi-volume book set, providing readers with a comprehensive and engaging handbook on the topic. Volume 1, titled Trait Psychology across Cultures, focuses on the cross-cultural study of personality dispositions or traits, including the extent to which…

It is generally acknowledged that attachment relationships are important for infants and young children, but there is little clarity on what exactly constitutes such a relationship. Does it occur between two individuals (infant-mother or infant-father) or in an extended network? In the West, monotropic attachment appears to function as a secure foundation for infants, but…

The key to the upliftment of the Adivasi community is a deep understanding of their culture, psychological resources and cognitive strengths. Ecology, Culture and Human Development: Lessons for Adivasi Education presents a comparative analysis of the cultural and cognitive dimensions of various communities in Canada, Ghana, China and India, and seeks answers from this analysis for Adivasi…

This is the first book that provides detailed guidelines of how to conduct multi-disciplinary research to study people’s behaviors in different cultures. Readers are encouraged to look beyond disciplinary boundaries to address issues between individuals and their socio-cultural environments so as to design the most effective studies possible. The core philosophical and theoretical assumptions that…

“The witch who lost her marbles” is the story about the extraterrestrian Ngululu who uses his home, the temple of adventures at Blalocee, to travel through time and space. One day,  Ngululu jumps into his spaceship, spins around and lands in the middle of a hot, dry and vast desert. It is there, where he meets…

This breakthrough volume brings together cultural neuroscience and intercultural relations in an expansive presentation. Its selected topics in reasoning, memory, and other key cognitive areas bridge the neuroscience behind culture-related phenomena with the complex social processes involved in seeing the world through the perspective of others. Coverage ranges beyond the familiar paradigms of acculturation and…

Multicultural psychology is a vibrant, emerging discipline with great potential to inform therapists about cultural considerations relevant to mental health. But to what extent are existing assumptions about culturally-informed practice based on research evidence? This book brings clarity to the current evidence base, shifting the conversation toward greater inclusion of cultural factors in psychotherapy and…

Offering a primary focus on North American cultural and ethnic diversity while addressing global questions and issues, Counseling Across Cultures, Seventh Edition draws on the expertise of 48 invited contributors to examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling diverse clients. The book’s chapters highlight work with African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/as, American…

Chapter 1. Similarities of Chimpanzee and Human CultureChristophe Boesch Chapter 2. Culture and NeuroplasticityShinobu Kitayama, Jiyoung Park, Yay-hyung Cho Chapter 3. Methodological Aspects of Cross-Cultural Research Fons J. R. van de Vijver Chapter 4. Morality, Development, and CultureMelanie Killen, Aline Hitti, Shelby Cooley, Laura Elenbaas Chapter 5. The Psychology of Residential and Relational Mobilities Shigehiro Oishi, Joanna…

This is a book about Mori-Joe and the cultural and spiritual journey she embarks on. After spending her formative years in Germany she moves to South Africa with her parents, where exci- ting new worlds await her. Somehow these worlds are already un- cannily familiar to her. Her journey is told in the form of…

The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology presents a comprehensive collection of information relating to the fields of cross-cultural, cultural, and indigenous psychology contributed by scientists and scholars from around the world. The work features over 600 entries, including biographies of 135 key people from the fields of cross-cultural, cultural, and indigenous psychology. Content includes coverage on…

From the Back Cover Global Perspectives on Well-Being in Immigrant Families stands apart from current edited books by focusing mainly on immigrants coming to countries other than the United States, and on the experiences of children, adolescents, and young adults. Its international panel of experts addresses the complexities of acculturation in individual and family contexts, and…

The volume addresses some important basic issues, such as measurement of multicultural identity, links between multilingualism and multiculturalism, the social psychology of multiculturalism and globalization, as well as applied issues such as multiculturalism in counseling, education, policy, marketing and organizational science, to mention a few. See Attachment section on this page to download the flyer…

Although leadership theories have evolved to reflect changing social contexts, they remain silent on issues of equity, diversity, and social justice. Diversity and Leadership offers a new paradigm for examining leadership by bringing together two domains‚-research on leadership and research on diversity‚-to challenge existing notions of leadership and move toward a diverse and global view of society…

Consistent with the goals for the APA Handbooks in Psychology‚Ñ¢ series, the purpose of the two-volume APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology is to present the best science and best practice within this cross-cutting perspective of psychology. Volume 1, covering theory and research, comprises chapters concerning conceptual and professional issues, ethnic minority research and methods, individual differences, social…

In this volume, Qi Wang traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of the autobiographical self – the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the family and the community. Wang combines rigorous research, sensitive survey of real memories and memory conversations, and fascinating personal anecdotes into a state-of-the-art…

Human history is largely the story of communities, punctuated by examples of cooperatives–in fact, our level of cooperative behavior is one of the attributes that makes us most human. In recent years, however, concepts such as rugged individualism and social Darwinism have competed against cooperative ideas for supremacy, and today’s climate of global economic crisis…

  From the publisher website: Intercountry adoption represents a significant component of international migration; in recent years, up to 45,000 children have crossed borders annually as part of the intercountry adoption boom. Proponents have touted intercountry adoption as a natural intervention for promoting child welfare. However, in cases of fraud and economic incentives, intercountry adoption…

Social Psychology 1st Canadian Edition is the first social psychology textbook written specifically to address the discipline of social psychology as it exists today. A global context and cross-cultural content have been woven into the fabric of the text illustrating to Canadian students that understanding culture is key to understanding social behavior. Paired with strong neuroscience…

  Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables x   List of Contributors xii   Foreword xiv Joseph H. Pleck   Preface xx David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, and Michael E. Lamb Part One: Introduction  Chapter 1:  Introduction 3 David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, and Michael E. Lamb Part Two: Asia  …

  Table of Contents Introduction Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Athanasios Chasiotis and Seger M. Breugelmans Part I. Setting the Stage:1. Fundamental questions of cross-cultural psychology / Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Athanasios Chasiotis and Seger M. Breugelmans Part II. Explanation of Cross-Cultural Differences:2. Past and present of cross-cultural psychology / Gustav Jahoda3.…

From the Back Cover In recent years, globalization, multiculturalism, and Western interest in Eastern thought have contributed to the growth of cross-cultural psychology. Paradoxically, however, while spirituality plays such a major role in non-Western cultures, it tends to occupy only a minor area of cross-cultural research. Its roots in ancient philosophical texts such as the…

Managers are confronted with numerous challenging situations in their work life. Managing diverse interactions professionally has become a ubiquitous requirement of current working conditions in transcultural management, whilst remaining healthy at the same time.  This study contributes to the theoretical debate on managerial sense of coherence, identity, organisational culture and transcultural conflict (management) in international…

This book explains how macro cultural factors ‚- social institutions, cultural artifacts, and cultural concepts ‚- are the cornerstones of society and how they form the origins and characteristics of psychological phenomena. This theory is used to explain the diversity of psychological phenomena such as emotions, self, intelligence, sexuality, memory, reasoning, perception, developmental processes, and…

‚”Harry Gardiner and Corinne Kosmitzki, and their own very capable hands, skillfully and in an engaging and personal style, have energetically and generously updated and extended the coverage provided in the third edition of Lives Across Cultures. Covering all of the major developmental topics from cradle to grave, they take the reader through the labyrinth…

  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…

When we use language to interact with one another, we become involved in acontinuous and dynamic process of exchange. This fact makes interpersonalcommunication a fascinating area for behavioral research. During the give-and-takeof discourse, the communicators exchange facts, ideas, views, opinions, emotions,and intentions in such a way as to enhance or impede social relationships; create,maintain, and…

In today’s globalized world of international contact and multicultural interaction, effectiveintercultural communication is increasingly a prerequisite for social harmony andorganizational success. The APA Handbook of Intercultural Communication illustrateshow the practical, problem-solving approach of applied linguistics can illuminate a rangeof issues that arise in real-life intercultural interaction. Experts from a range of socialscience disciplines, including psychology,…

Cross-cultural research is now an undeniable part of mainstream psychology and has had a major impact on conceptual models of human behavior. Although it is true that the basic principles of social psychological methodology and data analysis are applicable to cross-cultural research, there are a number of issues that are distinct to it, including managing…

The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural psychology explores many personal stories of return migration. The author captures in dozens of interviews the anxieties, anticipations, hardships and flexible world perspectives of migrants and their families as well as friends and co-workers.  The book examines…

Confusion persists over the meaning of “race” and related terms like racial and racism. The concept is consistently used as if it were a biological reality, when it surely is not. In about 85 pages, with compelling graphic illustrations, the award-winning cross-cultural psychologist, Marshall Segall, dispells the illusion of race and reveals the unity and…

  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…

  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…

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…

  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…

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. 

  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…

  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…

   A significant factor in determining interpersonal relationships acros cultures is gender. It can have great importance to be able to understand how culture influences gender role expectations, marital satisfaction or the managing of conflicts in close relationships. Among the twelve chapters, seven are related to the psychological tasks that cultural diversity poses and five…

  Table of Contents Chapter 1: Culture and Human NatureChapter 2; Cultural EvolutionChapter 3: Methods for Studying Culture and PsychologyChapter 4: Development and SocializationChapter 5: Self and PersonalityChapter 6: MotivationChapter 7: Morality, Religion, and JusticeChapter 8: EmotionsChapter 9: Cognition and PerceptionChapter 10: Mental and Physical HealthChapter 11: Interpersonal Attraction, Close Relationships, and GroupsChapter 12: Living…

  Reflecting author √áigdem Kagitcibasi’s influential work over the last two decades, this new edition examines human development, the self, and the family in a cultural context. It challenges the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. The author proposes a new model‚-the ‚”Autonomous-Related Self‚”‚-which expands on existing theory by demonstrating how…

  Cultures of Infancy presents the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural psychological perspectives for a broader understanding of human development. In this compelling book, author Heidi Keller utilizes ethnographic reports, as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses, to illustrate how humans resolve evolved and universal developmental tasks with…

    Published as a volume in the series entitled ‚”Advances in Cultural Psychology: Constructing Human Development‚”, series editor Jaan Valsiner describes the book as ‚”a landmark in contemporary cultural psychology‚”.  Ernest E. Boesch is a pioneer in cultural psychology and founder of the so-called Saarbr√ºcken School of Cultural Psychology.  Part I consists of four…

This book address the issues of increased one-parent families, high divorce rates, second marriages and homosexual partnerships all in relationship to the variations in the traditional family structure.  The book examines how the function of the family has changes and the extent these changes have occurred throughout the world.   Table of Contents:   1.…

This book explores the way in which immigrant adolescents carry out their lives at the intersection of two cultures (those of their heritage group and the national society), and how well these youth are adapting to their intercultural experience, in both their personal well-being and their school and community adjustment. People in all societies experiencing…

As intercultural encounters between people in the modern world become more common, important questions have been raised about the nature of culture specific differences and similarities. Focusing on the relationship between culture and human development, this timely book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of key developmental processes. It combines psychological and sociological approaches with cross-cultural research…

  The 90 activities in this workbook feature a wide range of engaging case studies, self-administered scales, mini-experiments, and library research projects, addressing topics such as culture, race/ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, and social class. Background material is included for any concepts not commonly addressed in introductory texts.  In addition, the workbook is supported…

  Table of contents   I. THEORETICAL AND METHODLOGICAL ISSUES 1. Contributions to Indigenous and Cultural Psychology:  Understanding People in Context Uichol Kim, Kuo-Shu Yang, and Kwang-Kuo Hwang 2. The Scientific Foundation of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: The Transactional Approach Uichol Kim and Young-Shin Park 3. The Importance of Constructive Realism Fritz G. Wallner and…