Personality, Human Development, and Culture: International Perspectives On Psychological Science (Volume 2)

by Schwarzer; Ralf

• ISBN13: 9781848720237
• ISBN10: 1848720238
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-03
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

Volumes 1 and 2 of the Invited Lectures present the main contributions from the 29 th International Congress of Psychology, held in Berlin in 2008. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and State-of-the-Art lectures. They are written by international leaders in psychology from around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and perspectives that reflect cutting-edge advances in psychological science.The first volume addresses cognitive and neuropsychological issues in contemporary psychology. It includes chapters on perception, attention, and action, social cognition, and learning, memory, and development, and it also addresses fundamental general issues facing modern psychology. This second volume goes on to discuss emotions, development and culture, including chapters on emotions and health, early development and culture and ethnicity.These volumes with their broad coverage of psychological research and practice, and their highly select group of world renowned authors, will be invaluable for researchers, professionals, teachers, and students in the field of psychology.

Author Biography

Ralf Schwarzer is Professor of Psychology at the Freie University of Berlin, Germany. He has been President of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR), the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), and Division 8 of the International Association for Applied Psychology (IAAP). His research is on stress, coping, social support, self-efficacy, and health behaviours. Peter A. Frensch is Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II, at Humboldt-University, Berlin. He is also president-elect of the German Society of Psychology, and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Psychological Science. His research is concerned with the cognitive mechanisms underlying different facets of learning.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. ix
List of committees	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Emotions and health	p. 1
Affects and self-regulation	p. 3
The psychology of dieting and overweight: Testing a goal conflict model of the self-regulation of eating	p. 17
Psychotherapists at work: Exploring the construction of clinical inferences	p. 29
Passions: What emotions really are	p. 45
On living life to the fullest: The role of passion	p. 65
Emotion regulation and the social sharing of emotion: Interpersonal and collective processes	p. 83
The cultural construction of self and emotion: Implications for well-being	p. 95
Early development	p. 113
Early childhood development in Southern Africa	p. 115
Temperance and the strengths of personality: Evidence from a 35-year longitudinal study	p. 127
A cross-cultural perspective on the development of sharing behavior: Integrating behavioral economics and psychology	p. 141
Developmental science: An Africentric perspective	p. 155
Culture and ethnicity	p. 169
Doing a psychology of the Chinese people: Discoveries for the world from one end of the Silk Road	p. 171
Culture of conflict: Evolvement, institutionalization, and consequences	p. 183
Cultural psychology of globalization	p. 199
"Race", racism, and knowledge production in South African psychology: Implications for dealing with racism in contemporary South Africa	p. 213
The research and practice of work and organizational psychology in Brazil: Challenges and perspectives for the new millennium	p. 227
Paternalistic leadership in the Chinese contexts: A full-cycle indigenous approach	p. 241
Conceptual issues in psychology	p. 261
Psychology and behavior analysis: The nature of the controversy	p. 263
Social interactions: Conceptual reflections and an experimental approach	p. 275
Author index	p. 289
Subject index	p. 299
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