Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology

Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives

Edited by Ayse K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi

Brings together a variety of disciplinary approaches (economics, epidemiology, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and cultural psychology) to the study of human psychology embedded in the economic environment
Highlights how the link between the economic environment and human psychology can be studied using different disciplinary approaches
Emphasizes the role played by different aspects of the economy (economic conditions, changes, threats, activities, inequality, and structures) in the shaping of human psychological make-up
Underlines the importance of studying individuals as embedded within the external (economic) circumstances through which they have to navigate

Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology

Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives

Edited by Ayse K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi

Description

Edited by Ayse K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi, Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology focuses on the social and economic conditions that impact on every aspect of an individual's life cycle. This edited collection showcases a variety of approaches to the study of the role of the social and economic environment in human psychological processes, such as: judgment and decision-making, trust, the self, and happiness. Further, it brings together state-of-the-art research from the fields of psychology, anthropology, economics, epidemiology, and evolutionary science.

Illuminating how individuals think, feel, and behave in response to the social and economic conditions and settings that shape our daily lives, contributors to this volume explore the role played by economic conditions (wealth, scarcity, disasters); economic change (urbanization, socio-economic mobility); and the type of economic activity or structure (farming, herding, market economy) in the shaping of different psychological processes. As a result, the findings presented in this volume provide readers with important policy implications that have the potential to help to improve the psychological health of citizens at large.

Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology

Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives

Edited by Ayse K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi

Introduction
Ayse K. Üskül and Shigehori Oishi
Section 1: Ecology and Economic Activity
1. Ecocultural Perspective on Human Behavior
John W. Berry
2. The Role of Economic Culture in Social Interdependence: Consequences for Cognitive Style and Social Exclusion Experiences
Ayse K. Üskül and Harriet Over
3. How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China
Thomas Talhelm and Shigehiro Oishi
4. Rationally Irrational?: The Ecologies and Economics of Honor
Dov Cohen, Ivan Hernandez, Karl Gruschow, Andrzej Nowak, Michele J. Gelfand, and Wojciech Borkowski
Section 2: Socioeconomic Status and Inequality
5. Decision-Making Up Against the Wall: A Framework for Understanding the Behavioral Dimension of Low Socioeconomic Status
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
6. Socioeconomic Inequality in Health: Individual- and Area-Level Measures of Socioeconomic Position
Nicos Middleton, Panayiota Ellina, George Zannoupas, Demetris Lamnisos, and Christiana Kouta
7. Socioeconomic Cultures: How Education Shapes the Self
Rebecca Carey and Lucy Zhang Bencharit
8. Context Shapes Human Development: Studies from Turkey
Çigdem Kagitçibasi and Zeynep Cemalcilar
Section 3: Economic Conditions
9. Economics of Subjective Well-Being: Evaluating the Evidence for the Easterlin Paradox
Anke C. Plagnol and Lucia Macchia
10. Economic Shifts and Cultural Changes in Individualism: A Cross-Temporal Perspective
Yuji Ogihara
11. Dynamics of Culture Change and Cultural Stability Among the Shuar of Ecuador
H. Clark Barrett
Section 4: Ecological and Economic Threat
12. Economic Conditions Cue Evolutionary Challenges: When a Recession is More Than Just a Recession
Jeff Gassen and Sarah E. Hill
13. Disasters, Insurance, and Preferences
Yasuyuki Sawada

Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology

Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives

Edited by Ayse K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi

Author Information

Edited by Ayse K. Üskül, Reader in Social Psychology, University of Kent, UK, and Edited by Shigehiro Oishi, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia

Ayse K. Üskül is Professor of Social Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Kent, UK. Her current research is organized around two major themes: socio-economic basis of interdependence and cultural conceptions of honour.

Shigehiro Oishi is Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. His research centers on culture, social ecology, and happiness.

Contributors:

H. Clark Barrett
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

John W. Berry
Department of Psychology
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Wojciech Borkowski
School of Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland

Rebecca Carey
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

Zeynep Cemalcilar
Department of Psychology
Koç University
Istanbul, Turkey

Dov Cohen
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA

Panayiota Ellina
Department of Nursing
The Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol, Cyprus

Jeff Gassen
Department of Psychology
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX, USA

Michele J. Gelfand
Department of Psychology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA

Karl Gruschow
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL, USA

Sarah E. Hill
Department of Psychology
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX, USA

Ivan Hernandez
Department of Psychology
DePaul University
Chicago, IL, USA

Çigdem Kagitçibasi
Department of Psychology
Koç University
Istanbul, Turkey

Christiana Kouta
Department of Nursing
The Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol, Cyprus

Demetris Lamnisos
Department of Health Science
European University Cyprus
Nicosia, Cyprus

Lucia Macchia
Department of Psychology
City, University of London
London, England, UK

Nicos Middleton
Department of Nursing
The Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol, Cyprus

Andrzej Nowak
Department of Psychology
University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland

Yuji Ogihara
Department of Cognitive Psychology
Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan

Shigehiro Oishi
Department of Psychology
The University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA, USA

Harriet Over
Department of Psychology
University of York
York, England, UK

Anke C. Plagnol
Department of Psychology
City, University of London
London, England, UK

Yasuyuki Sawada
Faculty of Economics
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington
Department of Psychology
London School of Economics
London, England, UK

Thomas Talhelm
Booth School of Business
The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA

Ayse K. Üskül
School of Psychology
University of Kent
Kent, England, USA

George Zannoupas
Department of Nursing
The Cyprus University of Technology
Limassol, Cyprus

Lucy Zhang Bencharit
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA