Cross-Cultural Psychology: Volume 1: Basic Issues; Volume 2: Developmental Psychology; Volume 3: Personality and Social Psychology; Volume 4: Applied Psycholgy (Set of 4 Volumes)

Smith, Peter B.; Best, Deborah L. (editor)

ISBN 10: 1847879543 / ISBN 13: 9781847879547

Published by Sage Publications 978 184787-954-7, London

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[978 184787-954-7] 2009. (hardcover) As new. 411, 300, 396, 404pp. 8vo. 4 volumes, sold as a set. Green cloth, titles in black title blocks with silver borders and lettering stamped to front and spine. Empirical research on cross-cultural questions in social, developmental, cognitive, linguistic, personality, organizational, as well as other areas of psycholgy. Papers, articles, research on cross-cultural studies, both quantitative and qualitative, with various methodolgies represented. As new. Sage Benchmarks in Psychology.

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• Title: Cross-Cultural Psychology: Volume 1: Basic Issues; Volume 2: Developmental Psychology; Volume 3: Personality and Social Psychology; Volume 4: Applied Psycholgy (Set of 4 Volumes)
• Publisher: Sage Publications 978 184787-954-7, London
• ISBN 10: 1847879543
• ISBN 13: 9781847879547
• Binding: Hardcover
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Synopsis

This four volume set spans all areas of cross-cultural psychology, with particular emphasis on those areas in which the acclaimed editors, Peter Smith and Deborah Best, consider to have experienced the most recent progress, namely developmental psychology, personality, and social psychology. Cross-cultural psychology is a young field but with a global research that encompasses many facets of psychological behavior, essentially anything at the interrelationship of psychological processes and culture at an individual, social, and developmental level.

Volume 1: Basic Issues
Volume 2: Developmental Psychology
Volume 3: Personality and Social Psychology
Volume 4: Applied Psychology

About the Author

PETER K SMITH is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, U.K.  He has a first degree from University of Oxford, and a PhD from University of Sheffield.  His main area of research is on school bullying. He is currently particularly interested in country differences and cross-cultural comparisons. He has also carried out research on children’s play; and on the role of grandparents in children’s development.  He has been involved in bullying research for 30 years. In the UK he helped produce the national anti-bullying pack Don’t Suffer in Silence (1994, 2^nd edition 2000).  He chaired COST Action IS0801 on Cyberbullying (2008-2012). He chaired an Indian-European Research Networking Programme on Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Pupil Safety and Well-Being (2012-2015).  He is currently on the Management Committee of COST Action CA18115, Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level.  In 2015 he was awarded the William Thierry Preyer award for Excellence in Research on Human Development, by the European Society for Developmental Psychology, and in 2018 the Student Wellbeing and Prevention of Violence (SWAPv) Award, from Flinders University, Australia. In December 2018 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vienna.