Contents

1. Acknowledgements

2. About This Book

3. I. Culture and Psychology

   1. Introduction to Psychology

   2. Cultural WEIRDos

   3. Introduction to Cultural Psychology

   4. Defining Culture

   5. Two Views of Culture

   6. Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions

   7. Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism

   8. Chapter Review

4. II. Cultural Learning

   1. Animal Culture

   2. Uniquely Human

   3. Ecological and Geographic Cultural Variation

   4. Cultural Transmission

   5. Chapter Review

5. III. Research Methods and Culture

   1. Advantages and Disadvantages

   2. Procedural Bias

   3. Sampling Bias

   4. Research Issues in Cultural Psychology

   5. Instrument Bias

   6. Interpretation Bias

   7. Other Issues in Research

   8. Ethics in Cultural Psychological Research

   9. Chapter Review

6. IV. Culture and Development

   1. Defining Enculturation

   2. Other Enculturation Agents

   3. Enculturation Agents

   4. Temperament

   5. Attachment

   6. Parenting Styles

   7. Cognitive Development

   8. Chapter Review

7. V. Culture and Cognition

   1. Sensation and Perception

   2. Attention

   3. Social Cognitions

   4. Thinking

   5. Memory

   6. Intelligence

   7. Chapter Review

8. VI. Culture and Sexuality

   1. Sex and Gender

   2. Sexuality and Culture

   3. Sexual Orientation

   4. Gender Identity

   5. Gender Differences

   6. Gender Enculturation Agents

   7. Stereotypes and Gender Roles

   8. Discrimination

   9. Chapter Review

9. VII. Culture and Emotion

   1. Components of Emotions

   2. Emotions and Culture

   3. Chapter Review

   4. Motivation

10. VIII. Culture of Self and Personality

    1. Introduction to Personality

    2. Chapter Review

    3. Five Factor Model and Cross-Cultural Research

    4. Big Five as Universals

    5. Cultural Considerations and Indigenous Personality

    6. Self and Culture

    7. Characteristics of the Self-Concept

    8. Trait Theory

    9. Self-Enhancement and Self-Effacement

    10. Self and Culture

    11. Neural Basis for Self

    12. Beyond East and West Differences

11. IX. Culture and Physical Health

    1. What Does it Mean to be Healthy?

    2. Global Definition of Health

    3. Life Expectancy

    4. Infant Mortality

    5. Subjective Well-Being

    6. Health in American Culture

    7. Diet

    8. Sleep Hygiene

    9. Socioeconomic Status (SES)

    10. Race and Ethnicity

    11. Global Health Cross-Cultural Comparisons

    12. Summary

    13. Vocabulary

12. X. Culture and Mental Health

    1. What is Mental Illness?

    2. Making a Diagnosis (The 3 D’s)

    3. History of Mental Illness

    4. Cultural Concepts of Distress

    5. Universal Disorders

    6. Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)

    7. Anxiety Disorders

    8. Eating Disorders

    9. Psychosis

    10. Barriers to Treatment

    11. Reducing Stigma around Mental Illness

    12. Chapter Review

13. XI. Culture and Social Behavior

    1. Group Interactions

    2. Group Interactions and Culture

    3. Cooperation

    4. Chapter Review

    5. Obedience

    6. Conformity

    7. Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination

14. XII. Culture and Morality

    1. Universal Morality

    2. Social Fairness

    3. Cultural Considerations of Kohlberg’s Theory

    4. Cultural Alternatives to Moral Development

    5. Chapter Review

    6. Psychological Reactions to Unfair Behavior

15. XIII. Living in a Multicultural World

    1. Multicultural Identities

    2. Acculturation

    3. Culture Shock

    4. Berry’s Model of Acculturation

    5. Bilingualism and Culture

    6. Cultural Switching

    7. Challenges to Living in a Multicultural World

    8. Chapter Review

16. References