In this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we take for granted--our perception of time. When we travel to a different country, or even a different city in the United States, we assume that a certain amount of cultural adjustment will be required, whether it's getting used to new food or negotiating a foreign language, adapting to a different standard of living or another currency. In fact, what contributes most to our sense of disorientation is having to adapt to another culture's sense of time.Levine,...

Psychological Anthropology: A Reader in Self in Culture presents a selection of readings from recent and classical literature with a rich diversity of insights into the individual and society.

• Presents the latest psychological research from a variety of global cultures
• Sheds new light on historical continuities in psychological anthropology
• Explores the cultural relativity of emotional experience and moral concepts among diverse peoples, the Freudian influence and recent psychoanalytic trends in anthropology
• Addresses childhood and the acquisition of...

Tagtglich werden wir Opfer von Manipulationen, unermdlich versucht irgend jemand, uns zu etwas zu veranlassen, was wir eigentlich gar nicht wollen. Und: je berlegener Sie sich fhlen, desto fter werden Sie bervorteilt! Robert Levine erklrt ebenso amsant wie fundiert, wie die groe Verfhrung funktioniert, und er zeigt, wie Sie sich gegen ungewollte Beeinflussung verteidigen knnen.