Great Ideas in Psychology: Suggested Readings Modified: Thursday, August 23, 2007

Culture

Culture makes a difference.

Suggested Readings and Resources

Cultural Psychology Links by Subtopic. [web page on Social Psychology Network, with many links]

Apfelbaum, E. R. (2000). And now what, after such tribulations? Memory and dislocation in the era of uprooting. American Psychologist, 55, 1008-1013.

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Atran, S. (2003). Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [prepublication draft]

Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1961). Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 575-582.

Clark, K. B., & Clark, M. K. (1939). The development of consciousness of self and the emergence of racial identification in Negro preschool Children. Journal of Social Psychology, S.P.S.S.I. Bulletin, 10, 591-599.

Furumoto, L., & Scarborough, E. (2002). Placing women in the history of psychology: The first American women psychologists. Sarason, S. B. (2002). An asocial psychology and a misdirected clinical psychology. In W. E. Pickren (Ed.). Evolving perspectives on the history of psychology (pp. 527-574). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Reprinted from American Psychologist, 41, 35-42. (Originally published in 1986)

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Gergen, K. J., & Gergen, M. M. (1997). Toward a cultural constructionist psychology. Theory and Psychology, 7, 31-36. [draft copy]

Jones, J. M. (2002). Toward a cultural psychology of African Americans. In W. J. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D. N. Sattler (Eds.), Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (Unit 3, Chapter 1), (http://www.wwu.edu/~culture), Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington USA.

King, M. L., Jr. (1968). The role of the behavioral scientist in the Civil Rights Movement. American Psychologist, 23, 180-186. Reprinted in J. M. Notterman (Ed.), The evolution of psychology: Fifty years of the American Psychologist (pp. 565-575). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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Matsumoto, D. (2002). Culture, psychology, and education. In W. J. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D. N. Sattler (Eds.), Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (Unit 2, Chapter 5), (http://www.wwu.edu/~culture), Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington USA.

Padilla, A. M. (2002). Hispanic psychology: A 25-year retrospective look. In W. J. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D. N. Sattler (Eds.), Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (Unit 3, Chapter 3), (http://www.wwu.edu/~culture), Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington USA.

Sarason, S. B. (2002). An asocial psychology and a misdirected clinical psychology. In W. E. Pickren (Ed.). Evolving perspectives on the history of psychology (pp. 453-469). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. Reprinted from American Psychologist, 36, 827-836. (Originally published in 1981)

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Schmitt, D. P. (2004). Sociosexuality from Argentina to Zimbabwe: A 48-nation study of sex, culture, and strategies of human mating. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [prepublication draft]

Segall, M. H. (2002). Why is there still racism if there is no such thing as "race"? In W. J. Lonner, D. L. Dinnel, S. A. Hayes, & D. N. Sattler (Eds.), Online Readings in Psychology and Culture (Unit 15, Chapter 5), (http://www.wwu.edu/~culture), Center for Cross-Cultural Research, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington USA.

Segall, M. H., Lonner, W. J., & Berry, J. W. (1998). Cross-cultural psychology as a scholarly discipline: On the flowering of culture in behavioral research. American Psychologist, 53, 1101-1110.

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Strickland, B. R. (2000). Misassumptions, misadventures, and the misuse of psychology. American Psychologist, 55, 331-338.

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Library link available to Psy425 students on Blackboard denotes a "non-public link" -- Psy425 students: See Blackboard for these links to non-public sources. Others may search for these references through their own library electronic or print resources.