Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology

<p>Edited by Ay se K. Üskül and Shigehiro Oishi <em>Socio-Economic Environment and Human Psychology </em>focuses on the social and economic conditions that impact on every aspect of an individual's life cycle. This edited collection showcases a variety of approaches to the study of the role of the social and economic environment in human psychological processes such as: judgment and decision-making trust the self and happiness. Further it brings together state-of-the-art research from the fields of psychology anthropology economics epidemiology and evolutionary science.</p><p>Illuminating how individuals think feel and behave in response to the social and economic conditions and settings that shape our daily lives contributors to this volume explore the role played by economic conditions (wealth scarcity disasters); economic change (urbanization socio-economic mobility); and the type of economic activity or structure (farming herding market economy) in the shaping of different psychological processes. As a result the findings presented in this volume provide readers with important policy implications that have the potential to help to improve the psychological health of citizens at large.</p>