Cross-Cultural Psychology

Part I. Basic Concepts.

1. Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology (Kenneth D.
Keith).

2. Ethnocentrism: Seeing the World From Where We Stand
(Kenneth D. Keith).

Part II. Approaches to Cross-Cultural Research.

3. Methodological and Conceptual Issues in Cross-Cultural
Research (Bernard C. Beins).

4. Why Diversity Matters: The Power of Inclusion in Research
Methods (Linda M. Woolf and Michael R. Hulsizer).

Part III. Development.

5. Child Development Across Cultures (Adriana Molitor and
Hui-Chin Hsu).

6. Cultural Variations in Perceptions of Aging (James T.
Gire).

Part IV. Cognition.

7. Culture and Cognition (Michael Cole and Martin
Packer).

8. Cultural Differences in Visual Perception of Color,
Illusions, Depth, and Pictures (William L. Phillips).

9. Cross-Cultural Approaches and Issues in Educational
Assessment (Howard T. Everson).

10. A Cross-Cultural Approach to Deconstructing Cognitive
Processes in the Mathematics Classroom: Japan and the United States
(Noriyuki Inoue).

Part V. Gender and Sex Roles.

11. Women Across Cultures (Hilary Lips and Katie
Lawson).

12. Experiences of Sexual Minorities in Diverse Cultures
(Linh Nguyen Littleford and Mary E. Kite).

Part VI. Health, Disorders, and Treatment.

13. Cultural Influences on Health (Regan A. R.
Gurung).

14. Culture and Psychotherapy: Searching for an Empirically
Supported Relationship (Junko Tanaka-Matsumi).

15. Evidence-Based Interventions for Culturally Diverse Children
and Adolescents: The Case of Mexican American Youth (Kristen
McCabe and Allison Christian).

16. International Perspectives on Intellectual Disability
(Robert L. Schalock).

Part VII. Emotion and Well-Being.

17. Culture, Emotion, and Expression (David Matsumoto and
Hyi-Sung Hwang).

18. Happiness Around the World (Jennifer Zwolinski).

19. Wellbeing Across Cultures: Issues of Measurement and the
Interpretation of Data (Robert A. Cummins and Anna L.D.
Lau).

Part VIII. Language and Communication.

20. Language and Culture: Commonality, Variation, and Mistaken
Assumptions (David S. Kreiner)

21. Crossing Boundaries: Cross-Cultural Communication (Leeva
Chung)

Part IX. Personality.

22. Culture and Theories of Personality: Western, Confucian, and
Buddhist Perspectives (Peter J. Giordano).

23. East Meets West: The Non-Self Versus the Reified Self
(Yozan Dirk Mosig).

Part X. Social Psychology.

24. Multiple Dimensions of Human Diversity (Loreto R. Prieto
and Sara Schwatken).

25. Cross-Cultural Differences and Similarities in Attribution
(Anne M. Koenig and Kristy K. Dean).

26. The Importance of Attractiveness Across Cultures
(Stephanie L. Anderson).

27. Multicultural.Identity Development: Theory and Research
(Richard L. Miller).

28. Cross-Cultural Organizational Psychology: An African
Perspective (Terence Jackson).

Part XI. Concluding Thoughts.

29. Cross-Cultural Psychology in Perspective: What Does the
Future Hold? (Kenneth D. Keith).

"In short, this book has some worthwhile chapters, highlighting
studies of importance in taking fuller account of cultural
variations in psychological phenomena." (Social Psychological
Review, 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." (News Blaze, 1
March 2011)"Cross-Cultural Psychology will be of value not only
to students of psychology and experienced psychologists, but also
to practitioners and researchers in other disciplines where their
work requires them to relate to and understand people. As one of
the chapter author's comments, 'increasingly, we hear that we
are living in a global community'. Psychology has surely to embody
the cultural inclusiveness and sensitivity to reflect this in
order to respond to the challenges of living in and understanding
the greater multi-cultural community that is humanity."
(Inclusion News, February 20110)

"In sum, this book contains an extraordinary mixture of the rich
and stimulating and the pedestrian. The question arises for what
kind of readership it is intended. The editorial introduction
appears to assume that the prospective reader knows next to nothing
about cross-cultural psychology, Moreover the editor, in both his
preface and after-word, addresses 'the student reader', seeming to
imply a text-book function." (Metapsychology, December
2010)

"How can psychology teachers incorporate more global research and
concepts into their existing or new courses? For the growing number
of teachers who seek to do this, this reader is a timely gem.
Editor Ken Keith is himself a master teacher, and his introductory
chapter on cross-cultural psychology segues into 29 original essays
by some leading U.S. and non-USA contributors, covering a wide
swath of 10 specialties--including social, developmental,
cognition, gender. This cutting-edge volume seems well-suited to
stand alone, or to complement a more traditional textbook for
survey courses."

--Harold Takooshian, Fordham University

Kenneth D. Keith is Professor of Psychology at University of San Diego. He is author of more than 75 professional publications including Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Quality of Life (ed. with R.L. Schalock, 2000). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Western Psychological Association.

K. D. Keith, University of San Diego, USA