Understanding Social Psychology Across Cultures: Living and Working in a Changing World (SAGE Social Psychology Program) - Softcover

Peter B. Smith was born near Colchester, UK, in 1937. and obtained his PhD from Cambridge University in 1962. After working at Leeds University, he joined the University of Sussex in 1966 and never found a good reason to leave. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology. He has studied cross-cultural aspects of leadership, conformity and informal influence processes, as well as cultural differences in styles of communication. He is the author of eight books and more than 180 other publications. He is former president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, and has served as Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.

"This textbook takes the study of social psychology one step deeper, as context is layered across the levels of place, society, and individual and historical time." Author: Susannah Paletz Published On: 2007-05-31