Socio-economic environment and human psychology : social, ecological, and cultural perspectives / Ayşe K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi.

Socio-economic environment and human psychology : social, ecological, and cultural perspectives / Ayşe K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi.

9780190879853 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

HM548 .S6176 2018

306.3

This edited volume underlines the value of attending to socioecological approaches in understanding the relationship between the economic environment and human psychology by including state-of-the art research that focuses on the role played by (a) type of ecology and associated economic activity/structure (e.g., farming, herding), (b) socioeconomic status and inequality (e.g., poverty, educational attainment), (c) economic conditions (e.g., wealth, urbanization), and (d) ecological and economic threat (e.g., disasters, resource scarcity) in the shaping of different psychological processes including subjective well-being, construction of the self, endorsement of honour, cognitive styles, responses to social exclusion, food intake, decision-making, health behaviours, and academic outcomes, among others.

This edited volume underlines the value of attending to socioecological approaches in understanding the relationship between the economic environment and human psychology by including state-of-the art research that focuses on the role played by (a) type of ecology and associated economic activity/structure (e.g., farming, herding), (b) socioeconomic status and inequality (e.g., poverty, educational attainment), (c) economic conditions (e.g., wealth, urbanization), and (d) ecological and economic threat (e.g., disasters, resource scarcity) in the shaping of different psychological processes including subjective well-being, construction of the self, endorsement of honour, cognitive styles, responses to social exclusion, food intake, decision-making, health behaviours, and academic outcomes, among others.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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