Culture and Group Processes [Paperback]

Human beings are adapted for group living. Groups have a wide range of adaptive functions for individuals, including both material benefits of mutual aid and collective action, and subjective psychological benefits of affiliation and social identity. Recent development of cultural psychology, however, has uncovered that culture plays crucial roles in group processes: patterns of group behavior and underlying psychological processes are shaped within specific cultural contexts, and cultures emerge in group-based interactions.Culture and Group Processes, the inaugural volume of theFrontiers of Culture and Psychologyseries, is the first edited book on this rapidly emerging research topic. The eleven chapters included in this volume, all authored by distinguished scientists in the field, reveal the role of culture in group perceptions, social identity, group dynamics, identity negotiation, teamwork, intergroup relations, and intergroup communication, as well as the joint effect of cultural and group processes in interpersonal trust and creativity.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Series Editors

Chapter 1. Culture and Group Processes: Defining the Intersection
Marilynn B. Brewer and Masaki Yuki

Part I. Culture and Basic Group Processes

Chapter 2. Essentialism and Entitativity Across Cultures
Nick Haslam, Elise Holland, and Minoru Karasawa

Chapter 3. Intergroup Comparison and Intragroup Relationships: Group processes in the cultures of individualism and collectivism
Masaki Yuki and Kosuke Takamura

Chapter 4. A Knowledge-based Account of Cultural Identification: The Role of Intersubjective Representations
Ching Wan and Jia Yu

Chapter 5. Culture, Group Processes and Trust
Letty Y-Y. Kwan and Ying-yi Hong

Part II. Culture and Intragroup Processes

Chapter 6. Outlier Nation: The Cultural Psychology of American Workways
Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Eric Luis Uhlmann

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