Cross-cultural psychology : critical thinking and contemporary application

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Author:

Shiraev, Eric, 1960-

ISBN:

9780205386123

Personal Author:

Shiraev, Eric, 1960-

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2004.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

General Note:

Rev. ed. of: Introduction to cross-cultural psychology. 2000.

Contents:

1. Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology -- 2. Methodology of Cross-Cultural Research -- 3. Critical Thinking in Cross-Cultural Psychology -- 4. Cognition: Sensation, Perception, and States of Consciousness -- 5. Intelligence -- 6. Emotion -- 7. Motivation and Behavior -- 8. Human Development and Socialization -- 9. Psychological Disorders -- 10. Social Perception and Social Cognition -- 11. Social Interaction -- 12. Applied Cross-Cultural Psychology: Some Highlights.

Abstract:

"This text introduces the field of cross-cultural psychology, discusses basic methodology for cross-cultural research, and explores the fields of sensation and perception, intelligence, human development, emotion, motivation, social perception and interaction, and mental disorders from a cross-cultural perspective. The dynamic author team provides a comprehensive review of theories and research in cross-cultural psychology within a critical thinking framework for examining, analyzing, and evaluating cross-cultural data."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Ethnopsychology -- Methodology.

Added Author:

Levy, David A., 1954-

Shiraev, Eric, 1960- Introduction to cross-cultural psychology.

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