Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology

• Author : Michael Bender,Byron G. Adams
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 31 January 2021

Cross-cultural studies require sound methodology and psychometrics. This book outlines advances in assessment from many expert perspectives.

• Author : David Matsumoto,Linda Juang
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 January 2012

CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY, 5E illustrates why and how psychologists should account for cultural factors in their efforts to explain and understand behavior. The authors' cross-cultural framework gives students the tools necessary for evaluating psychology from a cultural perspective, while the inclusion of the most current research highlights the relationship between culture and psychology. In addition, the text encourages students to question traditionally held beliefs and theories as and their relevance to different cultural groups today. Important Notice: Media content referenced

• Author : John W. Berry,Seger M. Breugelmans,Ype H. Poortinga,Athanasios Chasiotis,David L. Sam
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 17 February 2011

Third edition of leading textbook offering an advanced overview of all major perspectives of research in cross-cultural psychology.

• Author : Anton Yasnitsky,René van der Veer,Michel Ferrari
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 30 September 2014

The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology is the first volume to systematically present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain, and culture. Its main focus is the inseparable unity of the historically evolving human mind, brain, and culture,

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
• Release : 09 January 2012

Issues in Comparative, Cross-Cultural, and Environmental Psychology: 2011 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Comparative, Cross-Cultural, and Environmental Psychology. The editors have built Issues in Comparative, Cross-Cultural, and Environmental Psychology: 2011 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Comparative, Cross-Cultural, and Environmental Psychology in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of

• Author : David Ricky Matsumoto,Linda Pailiang Juang
• Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Release : 11 August 2022

1. An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology: Understanding and Defining Culture. 2. Cross-Cultural Research Methods. 3. Ethnocentrism, Prejudice, and Stereotypes. 4. Culture and Basic Psychological Processes. 5. Enculturation. 6. Culture and Developmental Processes. 7. Culture and Gender. 8. Culture and Health. 9. Culture and Emotion. 10. Culture, Language, and Communication. 11. Culture, Self, and Personality. 12. Culture and Abnormality. 13. Culture, Testing and Treatment. 14. Culture and Social Behavior. 15. Culture and Organizations. 16. Conclusion.

• Author : David Y. F. Ho
• Publisher : BrownWalker Press
• Release : 15 October 2019

This volume is addressed to scholars as well as a popular audience, aimed to bridge the gap between academia and the general public. It deals with "who we are," concerning our sense of self and identity; and "how we live," concerning our ways of life in diverse cultures. It affirms that we may transcend our cultural-ethnic roots and redefine our identities, individual or collective. Transcendence opens the door not only to personal transformation but also to confront ethnic stereotypes and

• Author : Meike Watzlawik,Ska Salden
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 16 July 2022

Innovative research requires courageous methods. With this in mind, Courageous Methods in Cultural Psychology invites students and post-graduate researchers to develop methods that will let them grasp phenomena of interest more fully. Readers will learn how to use established methods, and may be asked to develop them further by combining single steps of extant procedures, or by taking a completely new approach to data collection and analysis. In this book, diverse researchers present projects in which they have tried to

• Author : Kenneth D. Keith
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 12 July 2011

This book situates the essential areas of psychology within a cultural perspective, exploring the relationship of culture to psychological phenomena, from introduction and research foundations to clinical and social principles and applications. • Includes contributions from an experienced, international team of researchers and teachers • Brings together new perspectives and research findings with established psychological principles • Organized around key issues of contemporary cross-cultural psychology, including ethnocentrism, diversity, gender and sexuality and their role in research methods • Argues for the importance of culture

• Author : Harold L. Miller, Jr.
• Publisher : SAGE Publications
• Release : 05 January 2016

Drawing together a team of international scholars, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology examines the contemporary landscape of all the key theories and theorists, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses. Key features include: · Approximately 300 signed entries fill two volumes · Entries are followed by Cross-References and Further Readings · A Reader's Guide in the front matter groups entries thematically · A detailed Index and the Cross-References provide for effective search-and-browse in the electronic version · Back matter

• Author : Angela K.-y. Leung,Chi-yue Chiu,Ying-yi Hong
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 11 August 2022

Chi-yue Chiu is Professor of Management and Marketing at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

• Author : Darryl B. Hill,Michael J. Kral
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release : 01 February 2012

A critical and historical overview of psychology.

• Author : Jaan Valsiner
• Publisher : SAGE Publications India
• Release : 03 July 2007

In short, Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology presents a new look at the relationship between people and society, produces a semiotic theory of cultural psychology and provides a dynamic treatment of culture in human lives. This book makes a decisive break from the post-modernist theoretical framework that considers knowledge as local and situation-specific. It restores the goal of construction of general knowledge to the social sciences. While recognizing the uniqueness of all human personal experience from

• Author : Cathrine V. Jansson-Boyd,Magdalena J. Zawisza
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• Release : 18 November 2016

This unique handbook maps the growing field of consumer psychology in its increasingly global context. With contributions from over 70 scholars across four continents, the book reflects the cross-cultural and multidisciplinary character of the field. Chapters relate the key consumer concepts to the progressive globalization of markets in which consumers act and consumption takes place. The book is divided into seven sections, offering a truly comprehensive reference work that covers: The historical foundations of the discipline and the rise of globalization

• Author : Nandita Chaudhary,S. Anandalakshmy,Jaan Valsiner
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 23 October 2013

Cultural Realities of Being offers a dialogue between academic activity and everyday lives by providing an interface between several perspectives on human conduct. Very often, academic pursuits are arcane and obscure for ordinary people, this book will attempt to disentangle these dialogues, lifting everyday discourse and providing a forum for advancing discussion and dialogue. Nandita Chaudhary, S. Anandalakshmy and Jaan Valsiner bring together contributors from the field of cultural psychology to consider how people living within social groups, regardless of