Book Description
Psychology that reflects our diverse cultures and backgrounds! This concise, unique book challenges many of the "truths" presented in mainstream, introductory treatments of psychology. Matsumoto, extracting some of the most important and compelling findings in the cross-cultural literature, goes beyond the ordinary to reveal how culture has an impact on society, behavior, and expression. His review of the cross-cultural research literature in nine popular areas of psychology (perception, cognition, developmental psychology, language and language acquisition, cognitive development and intelligence, emotion, abnormal psychology, social psychology, and the self) provides readers with a more detailed discussion of the issues than is usually possible in other introductory books, keeping the material from becoming superficial or tokenistic. Readers are exposed to psychology from around the world and are provided options from which they can choose the perspective on psychology and human behavior that is right for them.
Publisher comments
Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Bock, Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577660552); de Munck, Culture, Self, and Meaning (ISBN 9781577661375); Matsumoto, Cultural Influences on Research Methods and Statistics (ISBN 9781577661122); and Wallace-Fisher, Consciousness and Behavior, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781577662969).
