This thesis is concerned with the psychology of western independent tourists and its impacts on Chinese tourism management. First, it discusses the different psychological modes under the different historical and cultural backgrounds between China and the West, including mode of thinking, mode of motivated behavior, mode of religion and ethics, and mode of aesthetic values; then, it makes a spe...

The aim of this paper is to provide non-specialist readers with an introduction to some current controversies surrounding the application of evolutionary theory to human behaviour at the intersection of biology, psychology and anthropology. We review the three major contemporary sub-fields; namely Human Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology and Cultural Evolution, and we compare their vi...

Achieving environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability is predicated on changing human behavior; the purview of Psychologists. For instance, research based in cognitive, social, and behavioral psychology has informed initiatives regarding public education and advocacy, framing of messages, decision making, incentive-based regulation, and social marketing. This special issue of S...

NTRODUCTION This artcle charts the origins and development of scientific psychology, a Euro-American “article of export” (Danziger, 2006, p. 271), into Afrique Noire. This ‘export’ commodity is “an indigenous psychology rooted in a particular cultural tradition” – European Enlightenment (Berry, 2006, p. 260). The paper develops in six major themes: scientific psychology’s emergence and growth; ...

Ward, C. & Kennedy. A. (1993a). Psychological and sociocultural adjustment during cross-cut~ural transitions: A comparison of secondary students overseas and at home. lnternarionnl Journal (if f‘s~chology. 28. 129-147. Ward. C. & Kennedy. PI. (1993b). Where‘s the “culture“ in cross-cultural transition‘? Comparative studies of sojourner adjustment. Journal of Cross-Culrural Psychology. 24. 221-2...

Anthropological evidence from diverse societies suggests that prestige-based leadership may provide a foundation for cooperation in many contexts. Here, inspired by such ethnographic observations and building on a foundation of existing research on the evolution of prestige, we develop a set of formal models to explore when an evolved prestige psychology might drive the cultural evolution of n-...