02350nam a22003618a 4500 CR9780511779374 UkCbUP 20171023125055.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511779374 (ebook) 9780521765237 (hardback) 9780521758413 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HM621 .C853446 2011 306.01 22 Cultural Processes : A Social Psychological Perspective / Edited by Angela K.-y. Leung, Chi-yue Chiu, Ying-yi Hong. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Culture and Psychology Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). With the rapid growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors in the last two decades, researchers are increasingly curious as to why, how, and when such differences surface. The field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to a science of cultural processes. The goal of this book is to lay the theoretical foundation for this exciting development by proposing an original process model of culture. This new perspective discusses and extends contemporary social psychological theories of social cognition and social motivation to explain why culture matters in human psychology. We view culture as a loose network of imperfectly shared knowledge representations for coordinating social transactions. As such, culture serves different adaptive functions important for individuals' goal pursuits. Furthermore, with the increasingly globalized and hyper-connected multicultural space, much can be revealed about how different cultural traditions come into contact. Leung, Angela K.-y., editor of compilation. Chiu, Chi-yue, editor of compilation. Hong, Ying-yi, editor of compilation. Print version: 9780521765237 Culture and Psychology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779374 230080 230080