Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology: Social, Ecological, and Cultural Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Ayşe K. Üskül (editor), Shigehiro Oishi (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 417
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Edited by Ayşe 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Contributor List
Introduction
Section 1 Ecology and Economic Activity
Chapter 1 Ecocultural Perspective on Human Behavior
Chapter 2 The Role of Economic Culture in Social Interdependence: Consequences for Social Exclusion Experiences
Chapter 3 How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China
Chapter 4 Rationally Irrational? The Ecologies and Economics of Honor
Section 2 Socio-Economic Status and Inequality
Chapter 5 Decision-​Making Up Against the Wall: A Framework for Understanding the Behavioral Dimension of Low Socio-Economic Status
Chapter 6 Socio-Economic Inequality in Health: Individual-​ and Area-​Level Measures of Socio-Economic Position
Chapter 7 Socio-Economic Cultures: How Education Shapes the Self
Chapter 8 Context Shapes Human Development: Studies from Turkey
Section 3 Economic Conditions
Chapter 9 Economics of Subjective Well-​Being: Evaluating the Evidence for the Easterlin Paradox
Chapter 10 Economic Shifts and Cultural Changes in Individualism: A Cross-​Temporal Perspective
Chapter 11 Dynamics of Culture Change and Cultural Stability among the Shuar of Ecuador
Section 4 Ecological and Economic Threat
Chapter 12 Economic Conditions Cue Evolutionary Challenges: When a Recession is More Than Just a Recession
Chapter 13 Disasters, Insurance, and Preferences
Author Biographies
Index