Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications, Sixth Edition 6th Edition

I notice that most people gave this book very favorable reviews. I love the book, so I was surprised to see even two negative reviews. One person thought it was too difficult. Perhaps that reviewer needs to learn more about psychology before tackling it again. I found it quite readable and extremely interesting. The other negative reviewer complained of typos. Yes, there are a few, but I've never read a book that lacked such errors, if only punctuation errors. That is no problem as long as I can figure out what was meant. It seems like a trivial complaint for a book this good. Unlike other psychology books on culture that I've read, this one is not divided into various cultures or types of people (African Americans, East Asians, seniors, LGBTTQ, etc.) pointing out their unique differences. Instead, this book is divided into psychological aspects of people (cognition, emotion, motivation, etc.) and considers what factors (genetics, geography, socialization, economics, religious belief, etc.) bring about differences. In other words, the book presents what evidence exists for WHY people differ, if and when they do, and points out what mental phenomena seem to be universal. Critical thinking is an important aspect of the book, and the authors show how people can go wrong in studying people cross culturally. Moreover, the authors merely show how and why people are different, but leave up to the reader to decide what beliefs and actions in others they are willing to accept as part of human diversity and which ones they will drawn the line on, such as female genital mutilation. Other psychology books on culture I've read irrationally ask the reader to follow the APA Ethics while accepting various practices and beliefs as acceptable or normative as long as they are typical of a certain culture. Such an approach is not helpful, and that's where critical thinking needs to be applied. This book is an antidote for that irrational approach.

As above. Came quick, and will be crucial in helping me teach my undergrads!

This book has great information and should be an class in high schools. There should be another book for young kids based on same information in schools. Eye opener.

Very good. Exactly like how I needed. In my college bookstore it’s really expansive to rent this book. So, I save a money renting from here.

Had to purchase this book for a class and I returned it without any trouble.

Needed this for my psych class! Great quality for a rental

it is a book for school so it is good

Served its purpose for my psychology class...yay!