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

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.


Author: Ayşe K. Üskül
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/28/2018
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780190492908

About the Author

Ayşe 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.

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