Personality, Human Development, and Culture: International Perspectives On Psychological Science

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors to Volume 2......Page 10
Committees......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Section I Emotions and health......Page 18
1 Affects and self-regulation......Page 20
2 The psychology of dieting and overweight: Testing a goal conflict model of the self-regulation of eating......Page 34
3 Psychotherapists at work: Exploring the construction of clinical inferences......Page 46
4 Passions: What emotions really are......Page 62
5 On living life to the fullest: The role of passion......Page 82
6 Emotion regulation and the social sharing of emotion: Interpersonal and collective processes......Page 100
7 The cultural construction of self and emotion: Implications for well-being......Page 112
Section II Early development......Page 130
8 Early childhood development in Southern Africa......Page 132
9 Temperance and the strengths of personality: Evidence from a 35-year longitudinal study......Page 144
10 A cross-cultural perspective on the development of sharing behavior: Integrating behavioral economics and psychology......Page 158
11 Developmental science: An Africentric perspective......Page 172
Section III Culture and ethnicity......Page 186
12 Doing a psychology of the Chinese people: Discoveries for the world from one end of the Silk Road......Page 188
13 Culture of conflict: Evolvement, institutionalization, and consequences......Page 200
14 Cultural psychology of globalization......Page 216
15 “Race”, racism, and knowledge production in South African psychology: Implications for dealing with racism in contemporary South Africa......Page 230
16 The research and practice of work and organizational psychology in Brazil: Challenges and perspectives for the new millennium......Page 244
17 Paternalistic leadership in the Chinese contexts: A full-cycle indigenous approach......Page 258
Section IV Conceptual issues in psychology......Page 278
18 Psychology and behavior analysis: The nature of the controversy......Page 280
19 Social interactions: Conceptual reflections and an experimental approach......Page 292
Author index......Page 306
Subject index......Page 316