Learn how and why culture influences mental processes and behaviors in humans with Matsumoto/Juang/Hwang's market-leading CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY, 7E. This edition provides current, insightful take-away knowledge and information as updates address each major area of psychology from a cross-cultural perspective. Using today's most relevant theory and the latest research, this edition presents psychological theories and concepts within a culturally rich framework that invites you to discover, question, challenge and, ultimately, understand the association between culture and psychology. You explore pertinent topics, such as changing gender roles, sexuality, health, aggression, personality and mate selection, as you examine the differences and similarities among cultures in today's increasingly globalized world. Updated content and refined learning features help you gain a deeper, more complex understanding of the nature of culture and its connection to key psychological processes.

1. An Introduction to Culture and Psychology
2. Cross-Cultural Research Methods
3. Enculturation
4. Culture and Development
5. Culture, Self, and Identity
6. Culture and Personality
7. Culture and Gender
8. Culture and Cognition
9. Culture and Emotion
10. Culture and Communication
11. Culture and Physical Health
12. Culture and Mental Health
13. Culture and Psychological Interventions
14. Culture and Social Behavior
15. Culture and Organizations

AUTHORS
David Matsumoto
has been a professor of psychology at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 1989 and is the founder and director of SFSU's Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory. His books include well-known titles such as the APA HANDBOOK OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION, NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION: SCIENCE AND APPLICATION, THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY OF PSYCHOLOGY, CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH METHODS IN PSYCHOLOGY, THE APA HANDBOOK OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION, THE APA HANDBOOK OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION and THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY. He is the recipient of many awards and honors in the field of psychology and is a fellow of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science and the International Academy of Intercultural Research. He is the series editor for Cambridge University Press' series on Culture and Psychology and former editor-in-chief for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He has been president and CEO of Humintell since its founding in 2009.

Linda Juang
is a professor of education at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She earned her B.A. in child development from the University of Minnesota and her M.A. and Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Michigan State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Jena. She has taught at San Francisco State University, University of California at Santa Barbara and the Technical University of Berlin. Her research focuses on adolescent development in family, school and cultural contexts. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters concerning ethnic-racial identity, discrimination, acculturation and the well-being of adolescents and young adults. She is currently an associate editor for the journals Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and Infant and Child Development.

Hyisung Hwang
is a lecturer at Sonoma State University and research fellow at San Francisco State University. Her areas of research include emotion, culture and social influence. She has authored or co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on nonverbal behavior, emotion and culture. She has also co-edited a number of books including the APA HANDBOOK OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION, NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION: SCIENCE AND APPLICATION and THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY. She has been a senior research scientist at Humintell since 2009.

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