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Learn how and why culture influences mental processes and behaviors
in humans with Matsumoto/Juang/Hwang's market-leading CULTURE AND
PSYCHOLOGY, 7E. This edition provides current, insightful take-away
knowledge and information as updates address each major area of
psychology from a cross-cultural perspective. Using today's most
relevant theory and the latest research, this edition presents
psychological theories and concepts within a culturally rich
framework that invites you to discover, question, challenge and,
ultimately, understand the association between culture and
psychology. You explore pertinent topics, such as changing gender
roles, sexuality, health, aggression, personality and mate
selection, as you examine the differences and similarities among
cultures in today's increasingly globalized world. Updated content
and refined learning features help you gain a deeper, more complex
understanding of the nature of culture and its connection to key
psychological processes.
Leading Scholars Blend Cutting-Edge Science with Practical
Experience to Reveal Evidence-Based Best Practices Edited by three
leading authorities on nonverbal behavior, this book examines
state-of-the-art research and knowledge regarding nonverbal
behavior and applies that scientific knowledge to a broad range of
fields. The editors present a true scientist -- practitioner model,
blending cutting-edge behavioral science with real-world practical
experience, thus making this text the first of its kind to merge
theoretical and practical worlds. This book is a valuable resource
for students and professionals as it explores the science behind
the practice and reveals how other professionals have effectively
incorporated nonverbal communication into their fields. This book
serves as an excellent text or supplement for courses/seminars in
nonverbal behavior, nonverbal communication, human interaction,
profiling, security management, and homeland security, as well as
courses in interviewing and qualitative analysis.
This field-leading text puts psychological theories and concepts
into a cross-cultural framework that invites you to discover,
question, challenge, and ultimately understand the relationship
between culture and psychology through exploration of such topics
as changing gender roles, sexuality, health, aggression,
personality, and mate selection. It all adds up to a text that will
leave you with a deeper, more complex understanding of the nature
of culture, its relationship to psychological processes, and the
differences and similarities between cultures in our increasingly
globalized world.
The last twenty years have seen a growth of fascination with the
Japanese, and the emergence of Japan as a world economic power has
stimulated many works that have attempted to understand Japanese
culture. The focus of this book is not on Japanese culture or
society per se: rather, it is on how Japnese culture and society
structure, shape, and mold the emotions of the Japanese people. All
cultures shape and mold emotions, but the degree to which Japanese
culture shapes emotion has led to several misunderstandings about
the emotional life of the Japanese, which this book attempts to
correct. Describing the findings of over two decades of research,
this book persents the Japanese as human beings with real feelings
and emotions rather than as mindless pawns caught in the web of
their own culture. In the process, it unmasks many myths that have
grown up around the subject and reveals important similarities as
well as differences betweeen the emotional life of the Japanese and
that of people of other cultures. Given our increased theoretical
understanding of Japanese culture and society, we are now better
able than before to link culture with individual behavior and
emotions. Owing in part to the advancement in methods of examining
emotions scientifically, the study of emotion has gained
considerable standing in the scholarly community, and systematic
research on emotion in Japan has produced a substantial body of
knowledge that lifts what was previously unsubstantiated
speculation to well-accepted facts. The author's work has been an
important factor in this growing field, as his research in Japan
has spanned a wide range of topics on emotion, with in-depth
assessments of hundreds of individual Japanese living in various
areas of Japan. In the present work, he also addresses the fact
that many studies of Japanese culture hold to a single point of
view-sociological, anthropological, or to a lesser extent
sociological. In response, he integrates these three points of view
in a new theoretical framework for understanding Japanese culture.
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 incongruities of language and
quantifying cultural response sets in the use of scales.
Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology provides
state-of-the-art knowledge about the methodological problems that
need to be addressed if a researcher is to conduct valid and
reliable cross-cultural research. It also offers practical advice
and examples of solutions to those problems and is a must-read for
any student of culture.
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 incongruities of language and
quantifying cultural response sets in the use of scales.
Cross-Cultural Research Methods in Psychology provides
state-of-the-art knowledge about the methodological problems that
need to be addressed if a researcher is to conduct valid and
reliable cross-cultural research. It also offers practical advice
and examples of solutions to those problems and is a must-read for
any student of culture.
For over a decade the Middle East has monopolized news headlines in
the West. Journalists and commentators regularly speculate that the
region's turmoil may stem from the psychological momentum of its
cultural traditions or of a "tribal" or "fatalistic" mentality. Yet
few studies of the region's cultural psychology have provided a
critical synthesis of psychological research on Middle Eastern
societies.
Drawing on autobiographies, literary works, ethnographic accounts,
and life-history interviews, The Middle East: A Cultural
Psychology, offers the first comprehensive summary of psychological
writings on the region, reviewing works by psychologists,
anthropologists, and sociologists that have been written in
English, Arabic, and French. Rejecting stereotypical descriptions
of the "Arab mind" or "Muslim mentality, ' Gary Gregg adopts a
life-span- development framework, examining influences on
development in infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and
adolescence as well as on identity formation in early and mature
adulthood. He views patterns of development in the context of
recent work in cultural psychology, and compares Middle Eastern
patterns less with Western middle class norms than with those
described for the region's neighbors: Hindu India, sub-Saharan
Africa, and the Mediterranean shore of Europe. The research
presented in this volume overwhelmingly suggests that the region's
strife stems much less from a stubborn adherence to tradition and
resistance to modernity than from widespread frustration with
broken promises of modernization--with the slow and halting pace of
economic progress and democratization.
A sophisticated account of the Middle East's cultural psychology,
The Middle East provides students, researchers, policy-makers, and
all those interested in the culture and psychology of the region
with invaluable insight into the lives, families, and social
relationships of Middle Easterners as they struggle to reconcile
the lure of Westernized life-styles with traditional values.
The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is the first and only
dictionary that surveys the broad discipline of psychology from an
international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary focus. This
focus was achieved in several ways. The managing and consulting
editorial boards were comprised of world-renowned scholars in
psychology from many different countries, not just the United
States. They reviewed and edited all of the keyword entries to make
them lively and applicable across cultural contexts, incorporating
the latest knowledge in contemporary international psychology. Thus
entries related to culture, as well as those from all domains of
psychology, are written with the broadest possible audience in
mind. Also, many keywords central to contemporary psychology were
incorporated that are not included in many competitors, including
the Oxford and APA dictionaries.
The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is the first and only
dictionary that surveys the broad discipline of psychology from an
international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary focus. This
focus was achieved in several ways. The managing and consulting
editorial boards were comprised of world-renowned scholars in
psychology from many different countries, not just the United
States. They reviewed and edited all of the keyword entries to make
them lively and applicable across cultural contexts, incorporating
the latest knowledge in contemporary international psychology. Thus
entries related to culture, as well as those from all domains of
psychology, are written with the broadest possible audience in
mind. Also, many keywords central to contemporary psychology were
incorporated that are not included in many competitors, including
the Oxford and APA dictionaries.
Matsumoto's book is designed to help students appreciate how
cultural factors moderate psychological processes and how the
viewpoint of one's own culture can distort one's interpretation of
the behavior of people from other cultures. At the same time, the
book stresses thata behavioral phenomena are characterized by both
cross-cultural similarities and differences. Students will
thoroughly examine the cultural similarities and differences in
psychology, communicaation, work, health, and more. Culture and
Modern Life parallels Weiten and Lloyd's PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO
MODERN LIFE and is available to students in a discount bundle.
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