Culture across the Curriculum

Kenneth D. Keith is Professor Emeritus of Psychological Sciences at the University of San Diego, and editor of the Cambridge University Press series Elements of Psychology and Culture. He is author or editor of a dozen books and more than 150 book chapters and articles, including The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2013), Cross-Cultural Psychology: Contemporary Themes and Perspectives (2010), and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Quality of Life (2002). Keith is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Western Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science, as well as a member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and for service to people with intellectual disabilities.

Foreword David Matsumoto; Preface; Prologue: a psychology of all people Kenneth D. Keith; Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Foundation and parameters of a contextualized global psychology education Michael J. Stevens, Viviane de Castro Pecanha and Alyssa Benedict; 2. Cultural competence for teachers and students Leonie Elphinstone; Part II. Teaching Across the Psychology Curriculum; Section 1. In the Beginning: 3. Culture and introductory psychology Kenneth D. Keith; 4. History of psychology in cultural context Kenneth D. Keith; Section 2. Research and Statistics: 5. Why culture matters in teaching statistics Susan A. Nolan and Andrew Simon; 6. Approaches to culture-oriented research and teaching Carl Martin Allwood; 7. Teaching psychological measurement: taking into account cross-cultural comparability and cultural sensitivity Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Diana Boer and Katja Hanke; Section 3. Biological Connections: 8. Incorporating culture into biological psychology courses Afshin Gharib; 9. Sensation and perception: why culture matters William L. Phillips; Section 4. Development: 10. Teaching child development from a cross-cultural perspective Adriana Molitor; 11. Teaching adolescent development from an international and cultural perspective Judith L. Gibbons and Katelyn Poelker; Section 5. Cognition: 12. Where tides collide: integrating culture in teaching cognitive psychology Aaron Richmond; 13. Integration of culture in the teaching of memory Qi Wang; 14. Bringing life to educational psychology through cross-cultural experiences Noriyuki Inoue; 15. Teaching about language by integrating culture David Kreiner; Section 6. Social Psychology: 16. Culture and social behavior Richard L. Miller and Tyler Collette; 17. Teaching about cultural differences in the correspondence bias Anne Koenig and Kristy Dean; 18 Ethnocentrism: our window on the world Kenneth D. Keith; 19. Cross-cultural attitudes toward sexual minorities Mary E. Kite, LaCount J. Togans and Kim A. Case; 20. Peace psychology: a gateway and path to culture and diversity Linda M. Woolf and Michael R. Hulsizer; Section 7. Health and Well-Being: 21. Health psychology Regan A. R. Gurung; 22. Well-being Chu Kim-Prieto and Jaclyn Kukoff; Section 8. Personality, Disability, and Disorders: 23. Cultural construction of personality: helping students think globally Peter J. Giordano; 24. Integration of culture in teaching about disability Elias Mpofu, James Athanasou, Tinashe Dune, Debra Harley, Patrick Devlieger and Chandra Donnell Carey; 25. Cultural issues in the teaching of psychological disorders Josephine C. H. Tan; 26. Culture-infused training in clinical psychology Junko Tanaka-Matsumi; Epilogue: the band plays on Kenneth D. Keith; Index.