Cultural processes : a social psychological perspective / edited by Angela K.-y. Leung, Chi-yue Chiu, Ying-yi Hong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leung, Angela K.-y., 1979- editor.

Chiu, Chi-yue, 1963- editor.

Hong, Ying-yi, 1964- editor.

Series:

Culture and psychology.

Culture and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Psychological aspects.

Culture.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the rapid growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors in the last two decades, researchers are increasingly curious as to why, how, and when such differences surface. The field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to a science of cultural processes. The goal of this book is to lay the theoretical foundation for this exciting development by proposing an original process model of culture. This new perspective discusses and extends contemporary social psychological theories of social cognition and social motivation to explain why culture matters in human psychology. We view culture as a loose network of imperfectly shared knowledge representations for coordinating social transactions. As such, culture serves different adaptive functions important for individuals' goal pursuits. Furthermore, with the increasingly globalized and hyper-connected multicultural space, much can be revealed about how different cultural traditions come into contact.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Contributors; Preface; Part One: INTRODUCTION; 1 Cultural Processes: An Overview; Part Two: REPRESENTATIONAL THEORIES OF CULTURE; 2 Culture as Lay Personal Beliefs; 3 Culture as Intersubjective Representations of Values; 4 Culture as Norm Representations: The Case of Collective Responsibility Attribution; Part Three: PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF CULTURE; 5 Epistemic Functions of Culture; 6 Existential Functions of Culture: The Monumental Immortality Project; 7 Self-Definitional Functions of Culture

Part Four: MANIFESTATIONS OF CULTURAL PROCESSES8 Culture and Self-Enhancement; 9 Cultural Processes Underlying SubjectiveWell-Being; 10 Cultural Processes in Teams: The Development of Team Mental Models in HeterogeneousWork Teams; 11 Harmony, Illusory Relationship Costs, and Conflict Resolution in Chinese Contexts; Part Five: TRANSCULTURAL PROCESSES; 12 Bicultural Identity Negotiation; 13 Multicultural Experiences and Intercultural Communication; 14 Multicultural Experience Fosters Creative Conceptual Expansion; 15 Workforce Diversity and Creativity: A Multilevel Analysis; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-85185-5

1-107-21736-9

1-282-90872-3

9786612908729

0-511-77937-2

0-511-91824-0

0-511-91922-0

0-511-91545-4

0-511-91366-4

0-511-91726-0

OCLC:

689996448