Title: Culture and social behavior /
Authors: Sorrentino, Richard M.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Social psychology.; Culture; Cross-cultural studies; East and West
Abstract: "Culture and Social Behavior covers a range of topics from differences in basic cognitive processes to broad level cultural syndromes that pervade social arrangements, laws, and public representations. Leading researchers in the study of culture and psychology describe their work and their current perspective on the important questions facing the field. Pioneers in the field such as Harry Triandis and Michael Bond present their work, along with those who represent some newer approaches to the study of culture. Richard E. Nisbett concludes the book by discussing the historical development of the field and an examination of which aspects of culture are universal and which are culture-specific. By illustrating both the diversity and vitality of research on the psychology of culture and social behavior, the editors hope this volume will stimulate further research from psychologists of many cultural traditions."--Jacket.
Contents: Two dimensions of political attitudes and their individual difference correlates: a cross-cultural perspective / Michael C. Ashton, Henry A. Danso, Gregory R. Maio, Victoria M. Esses, Michael H. Bond and Doris Keung -- A cultural-psychological model for explaining differences in social behavior: positioning the belief construct / Michael Harris Bond -- insider and outsider perspectives on the self and social world / Dov Cohen and Etsuko Hoshino-Browne -- Culture and relationships: the downside of self-contained individualism / Kenneth L. Dion and Karen K. Dion -- Constructing good selves in Japan and North America / Steven J. Heine -- Culture and lay theories of change / Li-Jun Ji -- Interdependent agency: an alternative system for action / Shinobu Kitayama and Yukiko Uchida -- Language, culture, and conceptions of the self / Wei Qi Elaine Perunovic, Michael Ross and Anne E. Wilson -- Uncertainty orientation and social behavior: individual differences within and across cultures / Richard M. Sorrentino, Yasunao Otsubo, Satoru Yasunage, John Nezlek, Sadafus Kouhara and Paul Shuper -- Issues in individualism and collectivism research / Harry C. Triandis -- The dialectical self: contradiction, change, and holism in the east Asian self-concept / Julie Spencer-Rodgers and Kaiping Peng -- The ghosts of cultural psychology / Richard E. Nisbett.