Culture and group processes / edited by Masaki Yuki and Marilynn B. Brewer.

Human beings are adapted for group living. Groups have a wide range of adaptive functions for individuals, including both material benefits of mutual aid and collective action, and subjective psychological benefits of affiliation and social identity. Recent development of cultural psychology, however, has uncovered that culture plays crucial roles in group processes: patterns of group behavior and underlying psychological processes are shaped within specific cultural
contexts, and cultures emerge in group-based interactions. Culture and Group Processes, the inaugural volume of the Frontiers of Culture and Psychology series, is the first edited book on this rapidly emerging research topic. The eleven chapters included in this volume, all authored by distinguished
scientists in the field, reveal the role of culture in group perceptions, social identity, group dynamics, identity negotiation, teamwork, intergroup relations, and intergroup communication, as well as the joint effect of cultural and group processes in interpersonal trust and creativity.

Table of Contents ; Foreword: Series Editors ; Chapter 1. Culture and Group Processes: Defining the Intersection ; Marilynn B. Brewer and Masaki Yuki ; Part I. Culture and Basic Group Processes ; Chapter 2. Essentialism and Entitativity Across Cultures ; Nick Haslam, Elise Holland, and Minoru Karasawa ; Chapter 3. Intergroup Comparison and Intragroup Relationships: Group processes in the cultures of individualism and collectivism ; Masaki Yuki and Kosuke Takamura ; Chapter 4. A Knowledge-based Account of Cultural Identification: The Role of Intersubjective Representations ; Ching Wan and Jia Yu ; Chapter 5. Culture, Group Processes and Trust ; Letty Y-Y. Kwan and Ying-yi Hong ; Part II. Culture and Intragroup Processes ; Chapter 6. Outlier Nation: The Cultural Psychology of American Workways ; Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Eric Luis Uhlmann ; Chapter 7. Culture, Group Processes, and Creativity ; Chenchen Li, Letty Kwan, Shyhnan Liou, and Chi-Yue Chiu ; Chapter 8. How Does Culture Matter? A Contextual View of Intercultural Interaction in Groups ; Mary E. Zellner-Bruhn and Cristina B. Gibson ; Chapter 9. Unpacking Four Forms of Third Culture in Multicultural Teams ; Wendi Adair and Omar Ganai ; Part III. Culture and Intergroup Processes ; Chapter 10. Culture and Intergroup Communication ; Kimberly A. Noels ; Chapter 11. Culture, Group Entitativity and Contagion of Conflict ; Tiane Lee, Michele Gelfand, and Garriy Shteynberg

Includes bibliographical references and index.