Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications, Seventh Edition

by Eric B. Shiraev, David A. Levy

This field-leading text provides a thoroughly updated review of the theories and research in cross‐cultural psychology. The text's unique critical thinking framework helps students develop analytical skills. Numerous applications prepare students for working in multicultural contexts such as teaching, counseling, health care, and social work. Emotion, human development, psychological disorders, social perception, personality and the self, and more are explored from cross‐cultural perspectives. New to the 7th Edition is an expanded cognition chapter and applied cross-cultural psychology chapter as well as more online resources, including PowerPoint slides, instructor manual, and video links.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Textbooks, School

525 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Eric Shiraev is Professor and Head of CARP (Character Assassination and Reputation Politics Research Lab) at George Mason University.

Reviews

[Morgan Blackledge · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love this subject.

But this textbook took a chip out of that love.

[wulfofallstreets A · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm lucky to have been a student of Dr. Shiraev.

[Srushya Krishnan]

Textbook for the class I'm teaching. Not rating it, just adding it to my read books.

[Conrad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plenty of great information. Probably my favorite class I've taken in college so far.

[Aidan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This textbook is great overall. It has a wide range of subjects from cognition across cultures to how cultures systematize psychopathologies and their associated treatments. It is well written and balances the naturalist and social constructionist approaches fairly well throughout the text however, the lean of the author does come into play at some points with some chapters omitting sections pertaining to the naturalists entirely.

However, there is one section in this book that irks me most particularly. There is a section on Sexual Identity where the main, and possibly the only, scientific reference used when claiming sex is a spectrum, a non-dichotomous variable, is the United Nations sector for LGBTQ rights and equality. Which as far as I am concerned is not an objective and scientific organization being used as a reference for a scientific textbook. A claim such as this, with the references used, is nothing but a political appeal.

[Mymy Thatha]

is good book for me.

[Sonya Wanvig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good textbook but it's hard to find a particular piece of information because discussions are broad. But it is a complicated subject...