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“The second edition of the Handbook of Cultural Psychology demonstrates both the depth and breadth of cultural psychological research done within the past decade….This is a must-read for every academic in the social sciences who incorporates cultural lenses to their work. Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty.”

—Choice Reviews


“This book is a comprehensive look at cultural psychology written by experts in the field. It should be in the libraries of researchers and clinicians alike. *****!”

—Doody's Review Service


“I highly recommend this book. It is readable, wide ranging, and will remind you of taking a walk in your favorite city, where you will turn a corner and never know exactly what is coming but you are sure that whatever you come across will be noteworthy, attractive, and compelling.”

—PsycCRITIQUES (on the first edition)


“The second edition of this extraordinary handbook—which is almost all new—once again captures the most important and fascinating topics in cultural psychology. It brings the reader up to date on exciting developments in the field, including applications to health, economic behavior, and beyond.”

—Carol S. Dweck, PhD, Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology, Stanford University


“A star-studded cast. An imaginative and comprehensive set of topics. This volume should be on every cultural psychologist’s bookshelf .”

—Patricia M. Greenfield, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

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Table of Contents

Young and Still Developing: Five Themes, Dov Cohen & Shinobu Kitayama

I. Theories and Methods

1. People Are Culturally Shaped Shapers: The Psychological Science of Culture and Culture Change, Hazel Rose Markus & MarYam G. Hamedani

2. A History of Cultural Psychology: Cultural Psychology as a Tradition and a Movement, Yoshihisa Kashima

3. Cultural Neuroscience, Shinobu Kitayama, Michael E. W. Varnum, & Cristina M. Salvador

4. Culture and Ecology, Thomas Talhelm & Shigehiro Oishi

5. Cultural Evolution and Cultural Psychology, Alex Mesoudi

6. Methods in Cultural Psychology, Dov Cohen

II. Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation

7. Culture and Intelligence, Richard E. Nisbett

8. Cognition and Perception, Takahiko Masuda, Matthew J. Russell, Liman Man Wai Li, & Hajin Lee

9. Culture and Language, Jeffrey Loewenstein

10. Culture and Motivation, Heejung S. Kim & Smaranda I. Lawrie

11. Cultural Influences on Emotion: Established Patterns and Emerging Trends, Jeanne L. Tsai & Magali Clobert

12. Well-Being and Health: A Cultural Psychology of Optimal Human Functioning, Yuri Miyamoto, Jiah Yoo, & Brooke Wilken

13. Wisdom and Culture, Igor Grossmann & Franki Y. H. Kung

14. Cultural–Clinical Psychology, Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton & Andrew G. Ryder

III. Acquisition and Change of Culture

15. Culture and Development, Heidi Keller

16. Cultural Psychology of Moral Development, Joan G. Miller, Matthew Wice, & Namrata Goyal

17. Food and Eating, Paul Rozin, Matthew B. Ruby, & Adam B. Cohen

18. Learning New Cultures: Processes, Premises, and Policies, Michael W. Morris, Katrina M. Fincher, & Krishna Savani

19. The Cultural Psychology of Acculturation, Batja Mesquita, Jozefien De Leersnyder, & Alba Jasini

20. Making Meaning: A Culture-as-Situated-Cognition Approach to the Consequences of Cultural Fluency and Disfluency, Daphna Oyserman & Veronica X. Yan

21. Psychological Science of Multiculturalism, Angela K.-y. Leung & Brandon Koh

IV. Culture and Economic Behavior

22. Cultural Psychology of Money, Dov Cohen, Faith Shin, & Xi Liu

23. Culture and Work, Benjamin R. Levine, Jesse R. Harrington, & Eric Luis Uhlmann

24. The Cultural Psychology of Negotiation, Michele J. Gelfand & Joshua Conrad Jackson

25. Culture and Consumer Behavior, Sharon Shavitt, Hyewon Cho, & Aaron J. Barnes

26. Culture and Creativity/Innovation, Chi-yue Chiu & Ying-yi Hong

V. Different Forms of Culture

27. Social Class as Culture, Michael W. Kraus, Bennett Callaghan, & Pete Ondish

28. Culture, Race, Ethnicity, and Personality, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton & Frank C. Worrell

29. Geographical Variation in the Big Five Personality Domains, Peter J. Rentfrow & Markus Jokela

30. Cultures of Honor, Ayse K. Uskul, Susan E. Cross, Ceren Günsoy, & Pelin Gul

31. Transnational Terrorism, Devoted Actors, and the Vitality of Cultures, Scott Atran

32. Religious Cultures and Religious Conflict, Adam B. Cohen & Steven L. Neuberg

Author Index

Subject Index

Supplemental E-book Featuring Selected Chapters from the First Edition:

*Anthropological Foundations of Cultural Psychology, Robert A. LeVine

*Culture and Psychology: A History of the Study of Their Relationship, Harry C. Triandis

*Evolutionary Foundations of Cultural Psychology, Melvin Konner

*Self as Cultural Mode of Being, Shinobu Kitayama, Sean Duffy, & Yukiko Uchida

*Culture and Social Structure: The Relevance of Social Structure to Cultural Psychology, Carmi Schooler

*Religion’s Social and Cognitive Landscape: An Evolutionary Perspective, Scott Atran

*Situating the Child in Context: Attachment Relationships and Self-Regulation in Different Cultures, Gilda A. Morelli & Fred Rothbaum

*Culture and Subjective Well-Being, William Tov & Ed Diener

*Passionate Love and Sexual Desire, Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson, & Lise D. Martel

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About the Editors

Dov Cohen, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois, where he is also affiliated with the College of Law, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Dr. Cohen's research interests include culture, religion, and socioeconomic issues, with studies on violence, law and social policy, consumer finance, creativity, and syndromes of honor, face, and dignity.

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Shinobu Kitayama, PhD, is Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He studies psychological diversity across cultures and has pioneered the field of cultural neuroscience. Editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, Dr. Kitayama is a recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, the Scientific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Career Contribution Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science.

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Contributors

Scott Atran, PhD, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Changing Character of War Centre and Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Aaron J. Barnes, PhD candidate, Department of Business Administration, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

Bennett Callaghan, MA, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Yulia E. Chentsova-Dutton, PhD, Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Chi-yue Chiu, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Hyewon Cho, PhD, Department of Marketing, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Magali Clobert, PhD, Department of Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Adam B. Cohen, PhD, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Dov Cohen, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

Susan E. Cross, PhD, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Jozefien De Leersnyder, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Katrina M. Fincher, PhD, Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, New York

Michele J. Gelfand, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Namrata Goyal, PhD, Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, New York

Igor Grossmann, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Pelin Gul, PhD, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Ceren Günsoy, PhD, Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

MarYam G. Hamedani, PhD, Center for Social Psychological Answers to Realworld Questions, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Jesse R. Harrington, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Ying-yi Hong, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Joshua Conrad Jackson, MA, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Alba Jasini, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Markus Jokela, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Yoshihisa Kashima, PhD, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Heidi Keller, PhD, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Heejung S. Kim, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Shinobu Kitayama, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Brandon Koh, PhD candidate, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Michael W. Kraus, PhD, School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Franki Y. H. Kung, PhD, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Smaranda I. Lawrie, MA, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Hajin Lee, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Angela K.-y. Leung, PhD, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Benjamin R. Levine, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Liman Man Wai Li, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Xi Liu, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

Jeffrey Loewenstein, PhD, Department of Business Administration, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

Hazel Rose Markus, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Takahiko Masuda, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Alex Mesoudi, PhD, Human Behaviour and Cultural Evolution Group, Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Batja Mesquita, PhD, Center for Social and Cultural Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Joan G. Miller, PhD, Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, New York

Yuri Miyamoto, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

Michael W. Morris, PhD, Management Division, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York, New York

Steven L. Neuberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Richard E. Nisbett, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Shigehiro Oishi, PhD, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, New York

Peter Ondish, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

Daphna Oyserman, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Peter J. Rentfrow, PhD, Department of Psychology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul Rozin, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Matthew B. Ruby, PhD, Department of Psychology and Counseling, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia

Matthew J. Russell, PhD, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Andrew G. Ryder, PhD, Centre for Clinical Research in Health and Department of Psychology, Concordia University, and Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Cristina E. Salvador, BA, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Krishna Savani, PhD, Culture Science Institute, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sharon Shavitt, PhD, Department of Business Administration, Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

Faith Shin, MS, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, Illinois

Thomas Talhelm, PhD, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Jeanne L. Tsai, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Eric Luis Uhlmann, PhD, Organizational Behaviour Area, INSEAD, Singapore

Ayse K. Uskul, PhD, School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

Michael E. W. Varnum, PhD, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Matthew Wice, PhD, Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, New York, New York

Brooke Wilken, PhD, American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, Leucadia, California

Frank C. Worrell, PhD, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Veronica X. Yan, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Jiah Yoo, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

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Audience

Researchers and students in social and personality psychology; also of interest to readers in developmental and industrial/organizational psychology, cultural anthropology, sociology, and communication.

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Course Use

May serve as a supplemental text in graduate-level courses.

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Previous editions published by Guilford:

First Edition, © 2007
ISBN: 9781606236116

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New to this edition:

• Most chapters are new, reflecting nearly a decade of theoretical and methodological developments.
• Cutting-edge perspectives on culture and biology, including innovative neuroscientific and biopsychological research.
• Section on economic behavior, with new topics including money, negotiation, consumer behavior, and innovation.
• Section on the expansion of cultural approaches into religion, social class, subcultures, and race.
• Reflects the growth of real-world applications in such areas as cultural learning and adjustment, health and well-being, and terrorism.