Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures by Peter B Smith

Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures by Peter B Smith

Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures is the definitive textbook on cross-cultural, social and organizational psychology and is essential reading for all students of the subject.

"This textbook takes the study of social psychology one step deeper, as context is layered across the levels of place, society, and individual and historical time" -- Susannah Paletz

PETER K SMITH is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, U.K.  He has a first degree from University of Oxford, and a PhD from University of Sheffield.  His main area of research is on school bullying. He is currently particularly interested in country differences and cross-cultural comparisons. He has also carried out research on children’s play; and on the role of grandparents in children’s development.  He has been involved in bullying research for 30 years. In the UK he helped produce the national anti-bullying pack Don’t Suffer in Silence (1994, 2nd edition 2000).  He chaired COST Action IS0801 on Cyberbullying (2008-2012). He chaired an Indian-European Research Networking Programme on Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Pupil Safety and Well-Being (2012-2015).  He is currently on the Management Committee of COST Action CA18115, Transnational Collaboration on Bullying, Migration and Integration at School Level.  In 2015 he was awarded the William Thierry Preyer award for Excellence in Research on Human Development, by the European Society for Developmental Psychology, and in 2018 the Student Wellbeing and Prevention of Violence (SWAPv) Award, from Flinders University, Australia. In December 2018 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Vienna. Michael Harris Bond was born in Toronto, Canada in 1944, obtaining his PhD in social psychology from Stanford University in 1970.  Working first at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan, he next joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he was Professor of Social Psychology for many years. He has contributed to many aspects of cross-cultural psychology, focusing particularly on Chinese social behavior, comparative studies of belief systems, and  improvements in cross-cultural research methods. He has published more than 270 papers and books in the field.  In 2009, he was appointed Chair Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

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ISBN 13	9781412903660
ISBN 10	1412903661
Title	Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures
Author	Peter B Smith
Series	Sage Social Psychology Program
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2006-01-05
Number of pages	336
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