Human Behavior in a Global Perspective

Part 1 A prolegomenon: the sociocultural nature of human beings; the global perspective in psychology - a brief history; how cross-cultural psychology is done; perception of visual illusions - a case study in the methodology of cross-cultural psychology. Part 2 Culture and cognition: alternative views on human competence - the development niche; theories of child development; cognitive processes; everyday cognition. Part 3 Personality and social behaviour: cultural differences in motives, beliefs and values - males and females and relations between them; culture and aggression. Part 4 Cultures in flux and cultures in contact: cultural change and modernization; intercultural relations in a shrinking world.