Includes bibliographical references and index.

Motivation and cognition across cultures / Richard M. Sorrentino and Susumu Yamaguchi -- Affect-regulation, self-development and parenting : a functional-design approach to cross-cultural differences / Julius Kuhl and Heidi Keller -- Uncertainty regulation : the master motive? / Richard M. Sorrentino ... [et al.] -- Implicit theism / Eric Luis Uhlmann, T. Andrew Poehlman, and John A. Bargh -- Do implicit motives add to our understanding of psychological and behavioral outcomes within and across cultures? / Jan Hofer and Michael Harris Bond -- A cross-cultural analysis of self-verification motives / Tammy English, Serena Chen, and William B. Swann Jr. -- An attribution theorist addresses the co-existence of theoretical generality and cultural specificity / Bernard Weiner -- Re-thinking culture and personality : how self-regulatory universals create cross-cultural differences / E. Tory Higgins, Antonio Pierro, and Arie W. Kruglanski --

Goal pursuit in the context of culture / Gabriele Oettingen, A. Timur Sevincer, and Peter M. Gollwitzer -- Unveiling agency : a motivational perspective on acculturation and adaptation / Michelle Gezentsvey and Colleen Ward -- A situated cognition perspective on culture : effects of priming cultural syndromes on cognition and motivation / Daphna Oyserman and Spike W.S. Lee -- The fundamental tools, and possibly universals, of human social cognition / Bertram F. Malle -- Cross-cultural differences versus universality in cognitive dissonance : a conceptual reanalysis / Bertram Gawronski, Kurt R. Peters, and Fritz Strack -- The role of language in the perception of persons and groups / Minoru Karasawa and Anne Maass -- Culture and intergroup relations : the role of social representations of history / Denis J. Hilton and James H. Liu -- Motivated expression of self-esteem across cultures / Susumu Yamaguchi ... [et al.] --

Culture, narrative, and human agency / Yoshihisa Kashima, Kim Peters, and Jennifer Whelan -- Culture, cognitions, and legal decision-making / Justin D. Levinson -- The psychological process of coping with threat and its cultural maintenance function / Emiko S. Kashima -- Values and social axioms / Kwok Leung and Fan Zhou -- Cognitive, relational, and social basis of academic achievement in Confucian cultures : psychological, indigenous, and cultural perspectives / Uichol Kim and Young-Shin Park -- Dialectical emotions : how cultural epistemologies influence the experience and regulation of emotional complexity / Jennifer L. Goetz, Julie Spencer-Rodgers, and Kaiping Peng -- Culture, emotion, and motivation / David Matsumoto and Jessie Wilson -- Measuring cognition and motivation across cultural groups / Ron Fischer and Vivian Miu-Chi Lun