Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1. Bridging the Gap Between Cultural and Personality Psychology in Research on Friendship: Differences, Potential Symbioses, and Present Contributions
(Tobias Altmann – University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany)
Part 2: Contributions from Cultural Psychology
Chapter 2. The Cultural Psychology of Relationality: Implications for Friendship
(Tuğçe Kurtiş, Ting Ai, Glenn Adams – Prescott College, Prescott, US, et al.)
Chapter 3. Face and Friendship in the United States
(Rebecca Merkin, Elisabeth Gareis – Bernard Baruch College, New York City, US)
Chapter 4. Cross-Group Friendships: Predictors and Implications for Intergroup Relations and Beyond
(Sabahat C. Bagci, Rhiannon N. Turner, Lindsey Cameron – Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey, et al.)
Chapter 5. From Interpersonal Friendships in General to Cross-Group Friendships in Particular: Reviewing When and Why They Are Beneficial, When and Why They Are Not
(Hermann Swart – Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Chapter 6. Children’s and Adolescents’ Descriptive and Prescriptive Knowledge about Friendship: Developmental, Cultural and Cohort Comparisons
(Michaela Gummerum, Monika Keller – University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, et al.)
Chapter 7. From Philia to Prejudice: How Friendship Is Shaped and Changed Across Cultures
(Samaneh Naseri – Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany)
Chapter 8. Prejudice Reduction and Intergroup Friendship: A South African Perspective
(Gillian Finchilescu – University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
Chapter 9. The Research on Friendship in Latin America: Progress, Challenges, and New Directions
(Diego E. Rodríguez-Cárdenas – Universidad de La Sabana, Chía, Colombia)
Chapter 10. Friendships of Latin American International Students in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru
(Agnaldo Garcia, Victoria García García, Beatriz de Barros Souza – Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil, et al.)
Chapter 11. Living Through a Pandemic in a Parallel Society: Reflecting on the Impact of COVID on Australia’s International Students
(Catherine Gomes – RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)
Part 3: Contributions from Personality Psychology
Chapter 12. Do Narcissists have Friends? The Connections Between Narcissistic Personality Features and Friendship Functioning
(Destaney Sauls, Virgil Zeigler-Hill – Oakland University, Rochester, US)
Chapter 13. Laughing Together: The Relationships Between Humor and Friendship in Childhood Through to Adulthood
(Siân E. Jones, Lucy James, Claire Fox, Lydia Blunn – Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK, et al.)
Chapter 14. How Subjective Representations Deviate from Actual Friendship Networks in Relation to Person and Personality Variables
Justin Kügl, Tobias Altmann – University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany)
Chapter 15. Methodological Advances to Studying Similarity Effects in Friendships
(Lukas J. Wolf, Siân E. Jones – University of Bath, Bath, UK, et al.)
Part 4: Contributions Linking Cultural and Personality Psychology
Chapter 16. A Multidimensional Competence in a Multicultural World: Multicultural Personality Construct and Measure
(Cátia Sousa, Gabriela Gonçalves, Joana Santos – Centre for Research in Psychology (CIP/UAL) & University of Algarve, Portugal)
Chapter 17. Unpacking the Interplay Between Multicultural Personality and Cross-Group Friendships in Promoting Positive Outgroup Attitudes
(Liliia Korol – University of Girona, Girona, Spain, et al.)
Chapter 18. Personality Traits and Self-Perceived Development of Friendship in the Course of Migration
(Jean P. Décieux – University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany)
Chapter 19. Ethnic Segregation Due to Opportunities or Preferences? Interethnic Differences in Friendship, Positive Affection, and Time Spent Together
(Zsófia Boda – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, et al.)
Chapter 20. Personality and Interethnic Relationships: How the Big-Five Personality Traits Affect Friendly and Unfriendly Interethnic Relationships Among Secondary School Students
(Roxy E. C. Damen, Tobias H. Stark – Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, et al.)
Chapter 21. Cross-Group Friendship and Prejudice in Five Central European Countries: The Role of Personality and Situational Factors
(Sylvie Graf, Martina Hřebíčková – Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic)
Chapter 22. Self-Assertion and Negotiations with Others in Japan
(Mika Hirai – Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Japan)
Part 5: Integrative Contributions
Chapter 23. Bravo! And Other Musings on Researching Culture, Personality, and Friendship
(Roger Baumgarte – Winthrop University, Rock Hill, US)
Chapter 24. An Integrative Approach to Understanding Friendship: Perspectives from Personality Psychology on an Understudied Relationship
(Marcus Roth – University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany)
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