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…

  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…

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…

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  …

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…

  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…

‚”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…