- Paperback: 184 pages
- Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc (March 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1577661133
- ISBN-13: 978-1577661139
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,155,999 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
From the Publisher
Consider these titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Bock, Rethinking Psychological Anthropology: Continuity and Change in the Study of Human Action, Second Edition (ISBN 1577660552); de Munck, Culture, Self, and Meaning (ISBN 1577661370); and Matsumoto, Cultural Influences on Research Methods and Statistics (ISBN 1577661125).
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Eye Opening, Jun 1 2008
By Irfan A. Alvi - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: People: Psychology from a Cultural Perspective (Paperback)
This book illustrates that psychological understanding in the West (especially the US) gleaned from studies of Western subjects (usually college students) is NOT especially generalizable to other cultures.Instead, while a few simple universals do appear to exist, the main finding is that culture has a major influence on how people think, feel, and behave, so a true study of human psychology (as opposed to only Western pscyhology) must draw on cross-cultural research, as is the case with cultural anthropology and other comparative areas of the human sciences.
This book provides an excellent introduction to cross-cultural psychology. It is easy to read and, despite being fairly short, it gives plenty of fascinating concrete examples covering many areas of human psychology (development, cognition, emotions, perception, abnormality, etc.) to demonstrate just how much difference culture makes.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in the human sciences, and perhaps required reading for those particularly interested in psychology.
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Great seller!, Sep 27 2005
By J. Gallardo "JAGRacer1875" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: People: Psychology from a Cultural Perspective (Paperback)
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