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Title Indigenous and cultural psychology : understanding people in context / edited by Uichol Kim, Kuo-shu Yang, Kwang-kuo Hwang.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Springer, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 518 pages) : illustrations.
Series International and cultural psychology series
International and cultural psychology series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents I. Theoretical and methodological issues. 1. Contributions to indigenous and cultural psychology: understanding people in context / Uichol Kim, Kuo-Shu Yang & Kwang-Kuo Hwang -- 2. The scientific foundations of indigenous and cultural psychology: the transactional approach / Uichol Kim & Young-Shin Park -- 3. The importance of constructive realism for the indigenous psychologies approach / Fritz G. Wallner & Martin J. Jandl -- 4. Constructive realism and Confucian relationalism: an epistemological strategy for the development of indigenous psychology / Kwang-Kuo Hwang -- 5. From decolonizing psychology to the development of a cross-indigenous perspective in methodology: the Philippine experience / Rogelia Pe-Pua -- II. Family and socialization. 6. Parental ethnotheories of child development: looking beyond independence and individualism in American belief systems / Carolyn Pope Edwards et al. 7. Close interpersonal relationships among Japanese: amae as distinguished from attachment and dependence / Susumu Yamaguchi & Jukari Ariizumi -- 8. Affect and early moral socialization: some insights and contributions from indigenous psychological studies in Taiwan / Heidi Fung -- 9. Cultures are like all other cultures, like some other cultures, like no other culture / James Georgas & Kostas Mylonas -- III. Cognitive processes. 10. The mutual relevance of indigenous psychology and morality / Lutz H. Eckensberger -- 11. Naive dialecticism and the tao of Chinese thought / Kaiping Peng, Julie Spencer-Rodgers & Zhong Nian -- 12. Indian perspectives on cognition / R.C. Mishra -- IV. Self and personality. 13. Indigenous personality research: the Chinese case / Kuo-Shu Yang -- 14. An historic-psycho-socio-cultural look at the self in Mexico / Roland Diaz Loving -- 15. The Chinese conception of the self: towards a person-making perspective / Yang Chung-Fang -- 16. Naive psychology of Koreans' interpersonal mind and behavior in close relationships / Sang-Chin Choi & Kibum Kim -- V. Application. 17. Humanism-materialism: century-long Polish cultural origins and twenty years of research in cultural psychology / Pavel Boski -- 18. Chinese conceptions of justice and reward allocation / Zhi-Xue Zhang -- 19. Family, parent-child relationship, and academic achievement in Korea: indigenous, cultural, and psychological analysis / Young-Shin Park & Uichol Kim -- 20. Paternalism: towards conceptual refinement and operationalization / Zeynep Aycan -- 21. Creating indigenous psychologies: insights from empirical social studies of the science of psychology / John G. Adair.
Summary Surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with focus on Asia. This work clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), and models integrative methods of study. It aims to dispel typical misconceptions about the field and its goals.
Note Print version record.
GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Ethnopsychology.
National characteristics.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Ethnopsychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Ethnopsychology.
Ethnopsychology. (OCoLC)fst00916198
National characteristics. (OCoLC)fst01033330
Volkenpsychologie.
National characteristics.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Ethnopsychology.
Volkenpsychologie.
Electronic books.
Added Author Kim, Ŭi-ch'ŏl, 1958-
Yang, Guoshu, 1932-
Huang, Guangguo, 1945-
Other Form: Print version: Indigenous and cultural psychology. New York, NY : Springer, ©2006 0387286616 9780387286617 (DLC) 2005932042 (OCoLC)68904889
ISBN 9780387286624
0387286624
Standard No. 0978387286617
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