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Title

Psychology in international perspective : 50 years of the International Council of Psychologists / edited by Uwe P. Gielen, Leonore Loeb Adler, Norman (Noach) A. Milgram.

Publication

Amsterdam ; [Berwyn, PA] : Swets & Zeitlinger, [1992], ©1992.

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Additional Authors

• Gielen, Uwe P. (Uwe Peter), 1940-
• Adler, Leonore Loeb.
• Milgram, Norman A.
• International Council of Psychologists.

Description

xii, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Women > Psychology > Cross-cultural studies
• Ethnopsychology
• National characteristics > Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Preface / Uwe P. Gielen, Leonore Loeb Adler and Norman (Noach) A. Milgram -- Foreword / Florence L. Denmark -- Sect. 1. The International Council of Psychologists in a Changing World. Fifty Years of the International Council of Psychologists / Patricia W. Cautley. The International Council of Psychologists and the United Nations / Selma G. Sapir and Kathleen Maurer Smith. Psychology and International Peacemaking in the Changing World Scene / Carmi Harari -- Sect. 2. European Psychology. International and Cross-cultural Scholarly Activities of Psychologists in the Fields of Statistics and Methodology / Peter F. Merenda. Post-Soviet Psychology / Harold Takooshian and Vladimir P. Trusov. Academic and Research Psychology in Greece / Diomedes Markoulis and Andreas Demetriou -- Sect. 3. Psychology Around the World. Psychology in Latin America / German Gutierrez and Ruben Ardila. Psychology in India / Nihar R. Mrinal and Uma S. Mrinal. Psychology in the Arab Countries / Ramadan A. Ahmed.
• Sect. 4. Encounters Between East and West. Interpersonal Style: Contrasting Emphases on Individuality and Group Conformity in Japan and America / L. James Hedstrom. Tatemae and Honne: A Study of Moral Relativism in Japanese Culture / Takashi Naito and Uwe P. Gielen. Foreign Language Learning, Ethnic Identity, and Cross-cultural Communication / Agnes Yu, Bruce Bain, Bjorn Jernudd, Jerry Boucher, Soo-Hyang Choi and Uwe P. Gielen. A Metatheory of Cross-cultural Comparisons Confronting Culturocentrism / David Y. F. Ho -- Sect. 5. The Next Generation. Child Psychology in Nigeria / Wilhelmina Kalu. Sudanese Children in the Family and Culture / Edith H. Grotberg and Gasim Badri. Identifying Gifted and Talented Children and Adolescents Around the World / Roberta M. Milgram. The Development of Prosocial Behavior in Japanese Children / Seisoh Sukemune -- Sect. 6. Women Around the World.
• Cross-cultural Comparisons of Projected Social Distances Toward Family Members: A Programmatic Study / Leonore Loeb Adler, Florence L. Denmark, Emily S.-C. Y. Miao, Ramadan A. Ahmed, Harold Takooshian, Helmut E. Adler and Robert W. Wesner. Women and Weight: An International Perspective / Esther D. Rothblum. Stresses, Strains, and Adaptive Responses in Professional Women: Cross-cultural Reports / Frances M. Culbertson, Anna L. Comunian, Susan Farence, Machiko Fukuhara, Esther Halpern, Emily S.-C. Y. Miao, Verda Muhlbauer, Ann O'Roark and Antoinette Thomas. Women, Family and Suicidal Behavior in Ghana / Araba Sefa-Dedeh and Silvia Sara Canetto -- Sect. 7. Clinical Issues. Psychotherapy in the Third World: Some Impressions from Pakistan / Riffat M. Zaman. Psychology and Psychotherapy Restructured to Meet the Changing East-West Peculiarities / Francis Macnab. Psychotraumatic Stress: Treatment in the Netherlands / Henk M. van der Ploeg.

ISBN

9026512368 :

LCCN

92009057

OCLC

• 25549287
• ocm25549287

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