The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is the first and only dictionary that surveys the broad discipline of psychology from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary focus. This focus was achieved in several ways. The managing and consulting editor boards were comprised of world-renowned scholars in psychology from many different countries, not just the United States. They reviewed and edited all of the keyword entries to make them lively and applicable across cultural contexts, incorporating the latest knowledge in contemporary international psychology. Thus entries related to culture, as well as those from all domains of psychology, are written with the broadest possible audience in mind. Also, many keywords central to contemporary psychology were incorporated that are not included in many competitors, including the Oxford and APA dictionaries.
Reviews “Cross-cultural research among psychologists from countries throughout the world has dramatically increased during the past few decades. The degree that cognitive processes, emotions, values, personality traits, developmental processes and other psychological variables are related to cultural variables, and questions of heredity vs. environment that have intrigued psychology since its inception, can be studied with cross-cultural methodology. In addition to definitions from all areas of psychology, this dictionary provides a comprehensive list of terms in cross-cultural psychology that will be useful to students as well as experienced researchers in all areas of psychology and social sciences. David Matsumoto, a leader in the field of cross-cultural psychology, is to be congratulated for this comprehensive dictionary and for the selection of editors from throughout the world who contributed to this volume.”
– James Georgas, Past-President, The International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology “An impressive achievement. More than its predecessors, The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology takes into account that the way our psyche works and the way we study it depend on where we were born and raised. The plain language definitions make the book attractive for non-psychologists – it should be at the disposal of other social scientists who want to know what their psychologist colleagues mean, of journalists and other writers, and of any interested lay reader.”
– Geert Hofstede, author of Culture’s Consequences “Kudos to David Matsumoto and his team of 42 academic editors and 117 contributing scholars for this extraordinary work. By drawing from the entirety of psychology, worldwide, The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is both monumental and pioneering.”
– David G. Myers, Hope College, author of Psychology, 9th Edition “The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is a thorough, up-to-date compendium of psychology's technical nomenclature. Crafted by an international team of experts, it gets high marks for accuracy and clarity. And consistent with David Matsumoto's great expertise in cross-cultural psychology, it is particularly strong in its coverage of non-Western concepts.”
– Wayne Weiten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Contributors Abraham Tesser, Albert Bandura, Alfredo Ardila, Amy Badura-Brack, Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin, Andrew Christopher, Andrew Elliot, Anna Gladkova, Anne R. Schutte, Arie Kruglanski, Austin Timothy-Church, Bill Graziano, Bob Emmons, Brendan Weekes, Cartmit Tamar-Tadmor, Chi Yue Chiu, Chris Peterson, Cynthia Pickett, Dale Dinnel, Darius Chi Shing Tse, David Carroll, David Gard, David MacKinnon, David Matsumoto, Dikla Shmueli, Dolores Albarracin, Donald Graves, Drew Anderson, Edward Chang, Elizabeth Loftus, Ellen Langer, Emily G. Soltano, Eva M. Fernandez, Filip De Fruyt, G. William Domhoff, Gary E. Raney, Geraldine Downey, Glenn Roisman, Greg Lehne, Gustavo Carlo, Harry Triandis, Heidi Lary, Howard Tennen, Icek Aizen, J. Farley Norman, Janice Juraska, Jason Plaks, Jean Mandernach, Jeanette Altarriba, Jeff McCrae, Jeffrey Greenberg, Jennifer Gianico, Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jerome Rossier, Jim Uleman, John Jost, John Kihlstrom, John Kurtz, Jonathan Brown, Jose Centeno, Joseph A. Vandello, Joshua Miller, Kevin MacDonald, Kim Noels, Kipling Williams, Kristen A. Diliberto-Macaluso, Laura A. Brannon, Lisa M. Bauer, Mahzarin Banaji, Marc Brackett, Marc Patry, Maria Rosario T. De Guzman, Mark Costanzo, Michele Gelfand, Neal Roese, Neil D. Weinstein, Nicholas DiFonzo, Nicole Landi, Normaris Gonzalez-Miller, Ozlem N. Ayduk, Peter Borkenau, Peter Smith, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Sam Paunonen, Sharon Danoff-Burg, Shigehiro Oishi, Sik-hung Ng, Steve Franconeri, Sumie Okazaki, Susan Burns, Suzanne Kirschner, Tanya Menon, Tim Johnson, Todd Jason McCallum, Todd Kahan, Trevor A. Harley, Veronica Benet-Martinez, Viorica Marian, Virginia Saunders, William Shadel , Yaacov Trope, Ying-yi Hong, Yoshi Kashima
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