The psychological foundations of culture / edited by Mark Schaller, Christian S. Crandall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schaller, Mark, 1962-

Crandall, Christian S., 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--Psychological aspects.

Social change.

Culture--Origin--Psychological aspects.

Culture.

Ethnopsychology.

Culture--Origin.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

viii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2004.

Summary:

The fast-growing field of "cultural psychology" tends to focus on how culture affects individuals' thoughts, feelings and actions. This book, conversely, presents theory and research showing the many ways in which basic psychological processes ultimately

Contents:

1. The Psychological Foundations of Culture: An Introduction / Mark Schaller, Lucian Gideon Conway, Christian S. Crandall 3

Part I How Cultures Emerge at all 13

2. Human Awareness of Mortality and the Evolution of Culture / Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Jeff Schimel, Jamie Arndt, Tom Pyszczynski 15

3. Cultural Elements Emerge From Dynamic Social Impact / Helen C. Harton, Martin J. Bougeois 41

4. Language, Cognition, and Reality: Constructing Shared Meanings Through Communication / Ivy Y.-M. Lau, Sau-Lai Lee, Chi-yue Chiu 77

5. Motivated Closed Mindedness and the Emergence of Culture / Linda Richter, Arie W. Kruglanski 101

Part II How Specific Cultural Norms Arise 123

6. Biological Foundations of Moral Norms / Dennis Krebs, Maria Janicki 125

7. Cognitive and Emotional Processes in the Cultural Transmission of Natural and Nonnatural Beliefs / Ara Norenzayan, Scott Atran 149

8. Self-Organizing Culture: How Norms Emerge in Small Groups / Holly Arrow, K. L. Burns 171

9. Scientists and Science: How Individual Goals Shape Collective Norms / Christian S. Crandall, Mark Schaller 201

Part III How Cultures Persist and Change Over Time 225

10. The Microgenesis of Culture: Serial Reproduction as an Experimental Simulation of Cultural Dynamics / Allison McIntyre, Anthony Lyons, Anna Clark, Yoshihisa Kashima 227

11. Sustaining Cultural Beliefs in the Face of Their Violation: The Case of Gender Stereotypes / Deborah A. Prentice, Erica Carranza 259

12. When Believing Is Seeing: Sustaining Norms of Violence in Cultures of Honor / Joseph A. Vandello, Dov Cohen 281

13. Move the Body, Change the Self: Acculturative Effects of the Self-Concept / Steven J. Heine, Darrin R. Lehman 305

14. Toward a Conception of Culture Suitable for a Social Psychology of Culture / Glenn Adams, Hazel Rose Markus 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805838392

0805838406

OCLC:

51553478