Cross Cultural Psychology

Children and Separation deals with the social, emotional and psychological difficulties facing children separated from their genetic parent(s) and consequently their genealogical, social and cultural roots. _x000D_..

Featuring an interdisciplinary perspective on how intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, and culture shape the psychology of immigrants, this volume demonstrates the influence transnational ties and cultural beliefs play on creating the immigra..

In the late 1960s, after a period of intense acceleration of the pace of research on human infancy, a number of investigators developed the conviction that certain contributions to the understanding of infancy would come from, and perhaps only come from, cross-cultural and cross-population studies._..

An important and pioneering study that considers the problematic relationship between development and psychology, tracing the deployment of psychological knowledge in the production/reproduction of power relations within the context of development policy and intervention...

Evolution, Culture, and the Human Mind is the first scholarly book to integrate evolutionary and cultural perspectives on human psychology. The contributors include world-renowned evolutionary, cultural, social, and cognitive psychologists. These chapters reveal many novel insights linking human evo..

This book examines questions of identity and cultural diversity from a social psychological perspective, and provides an introduction to this area which will be useful for psychologists, and also accessible to academics from other disciplines and the interested reader...

The goal of this volume is to highlight theoretical and methodological advances in cultural neuroscience and the implications of theoretical and empirical advances in cultural neuroscience for philosophy..

This book addresses the need for an understanding of the cultural dimensions of psychology and their application to everyday settings. It is ideal reading for undergraduate and graduate students and academics interested in culturally related topics...

Psychology of Terrorism is a definitive collection of classic and contemporary writings about the mind of the terrorist. Selected by a panel of world-renowned authorities, this collection provides the reader with knowledge and insight into the ideas and influences of modern terrorist groups...

By examining the processes of intergroup contact which arose in South Africa following the removal of official ethnic divides, and supporting it with evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation...

First published in 1975, this title sets out the differences between Soviet and other ways of thinking about nature, man, and society. The basic factor distinguishing Soviet psychology is that it views phenomena from the perspective of a articulated body of theoretical assumptions, and rejects the i..

This interdisciplinary book draws on theoretical work that exists at the intersection of critical social psychology, sociolinguistics and the political economy of language. It also draws on the empirical findings of research undertaken in the South African context on students’ linguistic biographies..