Culture, Behavior, and Personality

Robert A. LeVine is Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development Emeritus at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. One of his main research concerns parenthood and child development in societies such as African, Asian and Latin American. He is a member of numerous professional organizations such as National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation, where he is on the Board of Directors.

• Introduction: The Comparative Study of Personality and Sociocultural Environments 1. Basic Questions for Culture and Personality Research 2. Group Differences In Individual Behavior Patterns An Overview of Existing Theories and Methods 3. Theoretical Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations 4. Concepts of Socialization 5. Methods of Assessing Personality 6. Institutions, Deviance and Change Population Psychology: An Evolutionary Model of Culture and Personality 7. The Applicability of a Darwinian View 8. Basic Concepts In an Evolutionary Model 9. Adaptive Processes 1: Stability 10. Adaptive Processes II: Change 11. A Cost-Benefit View of Psychosocial Adaptation The Study of Individual Dispositions in Social Settings 12. Strategies in Personality Study 13. Psychoanalytic Clinical Method 14. The Couch and the Field 15. Universal Categories and the Translation Problem 16. Psychoanalytic Ethnography: Structures for Comparative Observation 17. Religious Symbols and Religious Experience Conclusions 18. New Directions in Culture and Personality Research 19. The Self in Culture