David Matsumoto is a renowned expert in the fields of emotion, nonverbal behavior, deception, and culture. He has been a Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 1989 and is the Founder and Director of SFSU's Culture and Emotion Research Laboratory. He is the recipient of many awards and honors in the field of psychology and is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, and the International Academy of Intercultural Research. He has been Director of Humintell (www.humintell.com) since its founding in 2009.

Hyisung C. Hwang is a senior research scientist, teacher, and lecturer in cross-cultural psychology. Her research interests are in emotion, nonverbal behavior, and culture. She has also co-authored numerous scientific articles and book chapters on nonverbal behavior and culture.

Jüri Allik
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia;
Estonian Academy of Sciences
Tallinn, Estonia

Deborah L. Best
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Katherine D. Blizinsky
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA

Huajian Cai
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China

Joan Y. Chiao
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA

Harry W. Gardiner
University of Wisconsin at La Crosse
La Crosse, WI, USA

Namrata Goyal
The New School for Social Research
New York, NY, USA

Michael Harris Bond
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hong Kong

Jia He
Tilburg University
Tilburg, the Netherlands

Ying-yi Hong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Cindy Y. Huang
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York, NY, USA

Zihang Huang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China

Hyisung C. Hwang
Humintell;
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA, USA

Yiming Jing
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China

Yoshihisa Kashima
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Kenneth D. Keith
University of San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA

Heidi Keller
University of Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Germany

Dejun Tony Kong
University of Houston
Houston, TX, USA

Jenny Kurman
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel

James H. Liu
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Walter J. Lonner
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA, USA

David Matsumoto
Humintell;
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA, USA

Joan G. Miller
The New School for Social Research
New York, NY, USA

Dario Páez
University of the Basque Country
Leioa, Spain

Angelica R. Puzio
New York University
New York, NY, USA

Anu Realo
University of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia;
University of Warwick
Coventry, England

Amir Rosenmann
University of Haifa
Haifa, Israel

Vassilis Saroglou
University of Louvain
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Takafumi Sawaumi
Ryutsu Keizai University
Ryugasaki, Japan

Sawa Senzaki
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Green Bay, WI, USA

Peter B. Smith
University of Sussex
Sussex, England

Agnes Szabo
Massey University
Palmerston North, New Zealand

Junko Tanaka-Matsumi
Kwansei Gakuin University
Nishinomiya, Japan

Evert Van de Vliert
University of Groningen
Groningen, the Netherlands

Fons J.R. van de Vijver
Tilburg University
Tilburg, the Netherlands;
North-West University
Potchefstrooom, the Netherlands;
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Qi Wang
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA

Colleen Ward
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand

Matthew Wice
The New School for Social Research
New York, NY, USA

Susumu Yamaguchi
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Nolan Zane
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA, USA

Siran Zhan
University of New South Wales
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

"The essays are very thoroughly researched and written in logical and comprehensive styles... An interesting, up-to-date examination of a very appropriate, current topic that concerns not only current conditions but their implications for the future." -- CHOICE

"The updated second edition of The Handbook of Culture and Psychology includes core and emerging topics in the field of cross-cultural psychology written by the field's leading scholars. In an era of seemingly endless contradictions and tensions between nationalism and globalization, this book is an invaluable collection of critical but balanced reviews of cultural differences and universal psychological attributes, including development, personality, cognition, emotion, gender, religion, interventions, intergroup relations, and multicultural identities. This book is both an accessible introduction to this growing and diverse science and a state-of-the-art compendium for scholars of cross-cultural psychology and related disciplines." -- Antonio Terracciano, Professor, Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine, Florida State University

"Perhaps the single most important but widely ignored contextual variable in psychology is culture. For many years, cultural psychologists have shown how little it is possible to understand about human behavior when that behavior is taken outside of its cultural context. Vast universal generalizations have been proposed about behavior that, because of limited sampling of participants, turns out to be culturally specific rather than universal. Matsumoto and Hwang's Handbook of Culture and Psychology (second edition) will go a long way toward addressing the importance and nature of cultural variables that influence human thoughts, feelings, and behavior. I recommend the book highly to anyone who wants to understand behavior in its cultural context, not just in the cultural vacuum that so often leads to misleading and even false generalizations." -- Robert J. Sternberg, Professor of Human Development, Cornell University