Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Psychology - 2nd Edition by Christine Ma-Kellams (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book combines hard science with everyday issues to explore how the intangible forces of our cultural milieu (race, religion, class, gender, sexuality, social media, etc.) powerfully change the way we want, think, and act. It incorporates both cross- and multi-cultural approaches to tackle modern issues of living in a diverse world.

Book Synopsis

This book combines hard science with everyday issues to explore how the intangible forces of our cultural milieu (race, religion, class, gender, sexuality, social media, etc.) powerfully change the way we want, think, and act. It incorporates both cross- and multi-cultural approaches to tackle modern issues of living in a diverse world.

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Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Psychology by Ma-Kellams provides both a readable and authoritative introduction to the fields of cross-cultural and multicultural psychology. The author weaves a compelling social psychological orientation to daily cultural situations commonly encountered in the U.S.

About the Author

Christine Ma-Kellams is an associate professor of psychology at San Jose State University and the coordinator of the Research & Experimental Psychology Master's Program. Her empirical work has been published in numerous journals and covered by news outlets, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Wall Street Journal, and the Boston Globe. Her fiction (short stories, essays, and novel, The Band) has been published by HuffPost, Salon, Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, the Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, Kenyon Review and Atria/Simon & Schuster.