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Michele J. Gelfand is Professor of Psychology and Distinguished University Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. Chi-yue Chiu is Dean and Faculty of Social Science at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong. Ying-yi Hong is Professor at Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Professor at the School of Psychology at Beijing Normal University in China.

Chapter 1 The Role of Language and Culture in Universality and Diversity of Human Concepts Mutsumi Imai and Takahiko Masuda Chapter 2 Development: The Cultural Solution of Universal Developmental Tasks Heidi Keller and Joscha Kärtner Chapter 3 From Chinese to Cross-Cultural Personality Inventory: A Combined Emic-Etic Approach to Study Personality in Culture Fanny M. Cheung, Shu Fai Cheung, and Weiqiao Fan Chapter 4 Cultural Unity and Diversity in Compensatory Control Processes Aaron C. Kay and Daniel Sullivan Chapter 5 Creating Cultures Between Arctics and Deserts Evert Van de Vliert Chapter 6 Macro Cultural Psychology: Its Development, Concerns, Politics, and Future Direction Carl Ratner