Social Psychology and Cultural Context

My work focuses on the description of "interpersonal structure" (i.e., the psychological dimensions along which social behavior varies), and on the modeling of the mental representation of interpersonal behavior and of the social context in which it occurs. This work has implication both for traditional social/personality psychology, and for a number of related theoretical issues (e.g., the possibility of distinguishing "universal" from culture-specific psychological processes, and the emergence over time of the dimensions along which meaning about interpersonal behavior is communicated).

Foreword - Walter J Lonner Preface - John Adamopoulos and Yoshihisa Kashima A Dedication Introduction - John Adamopoulos and Yoshihisa Kashima Subjective Culture as a Research Tradition PART ONE: REFLECTIONS ON CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY On the Unity of the Field of Culture and Psychology - John W Berry Unity in Diversity - Michael Harris Bond Orientations and Strategies for Building a Harmonious, Multicultural Society PART TWO: THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS IN CROSS-CULTURAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Four Questions about Human Social Behavior - Jack M Feldman The Social Cognitive Approach to Culture and Psychology The Emergence of Cultural Patterns of Interpersonal Behavior - John Adamopoulos Culture, Connectionism, and the Self - Yoshihisa Kashima and Emiko S Kashima PART THREE: ELEMENTS OF SUBJECTIVE CULTURE Subjective Culture and Social Behavior - James Jaccard, Harold A Litardo and Choi K Wan Multimethod Probes of Basic Human Values - Shalom H Schwartz, Arielle Lehmann and Sonia Roccas The Experience of Contrasting Subjective Cultures - Josephine C Naidoo The Case of South Asian Women in Canada Subjective Culture in Health Interventions - Gerardo Marin Subjective Culture and the Law - Roy S Malpass PART FOUR: GROUP AND INTERPERSONAL PROCESSES Family in Cross-Cultural Psychology - James Georgas Conflict Management Across Cultures - Kwok Leung and Darius K-S Chan Negotiation of the Self in Interpersonal Interaction - Emiko S Kashima and Yoshihisa Kashima Japan-Australia Comparison PART FIVE: APPLIED CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY Cross-Cultural Training - Richard W Brislin and Dharm P S Bhawuk Research and Innovations Culture and Family Planning - Andrew R Davidson et al The Acceptability of Male Contraception Culture, Control Beliefs and Job Satisfaction - C Harry Hui and Candice Yee Epilogue - John Adamopoulos and Yoshihisa Kashima