The Handbook of Culture and Psychology

by David Matsumoto (Editor)

This book provides a state of the art review of selected areas and topics in cross-cultural psychology written by eminent figures in the field. Each chapter not only reviews the latest research in its respective area, but also goes further in integrating and synthesizing across areas. The
Handbook of Culture and Psychology is a unique and timely contribution that should serve as a valuable reference and guide for beginning researchers and scholars alike.

Genres: Psychology

480 pages, Hardcover

First published August 27, 2001

About the author

David Matsumoto (born August 2, 1959) is an author, psychologist and judoka. His areas of expertise include culture, emotion, facial expressions, nonverbal behavior and microexpressions. He has published over 400 articles, manuscripts, book chapters and books on these subjects. Matsumoto is a professor at San Francisco State University and also the director of Humintell - a company that provides "unique training in the fields of facial expression of emotion, nonverbal behavior, detecting deception and cultural adaptation." In addition, he is an 8th degree black belt in judo and the founder and program advisor of the East Bay Judo Institute in El Cerrito, California. He was most recently inducted into the 2021 United States Judo Federation (USJF) Hall of Fame which acknowledges outstanding judoka who have made significant contributions to the sport of judo.

Reviews

[Anders Brabaek · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a scholarly handbook... it is mostly not written to provide pleasure but to bring people up to speed at university level. Some chapters are boring, some are really interesting and some are great.
It is fully possible to cherry-pick so I will highly recommend this book but not necessarily reading it cower to cower.

[Melissa Lee-Tammeus · Rating 3 out of 5]

The bane of my existence for the past 12 weeks has been the reading of this book supplemented by mounds of research papers. As a student, this was a difficult read only because someone made me read it. As a practitioner is is incredibly valuable. I imagine using this time and again to help remind myself of the multiculturalism that is our world. Excellent works regarding collectivism versus independent societies and cultures and various research on everything from working in groups to aggression in regards to intermingling cultures.