On Cultural Psychology

Acts of Meaning . Jerome Bruner. Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. 200 pp. $19.95 (cloth).
Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development . James W. Stigler, Richard A. Shweder , and Gilbert Herdt , eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 636 pp. $59.50 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).
Human Behavior in Global Perspective: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology . Marshall H. Segall, Pierre R. Dasen, John W. Berry , and Ype H. Poortinga. Pergamon General Psychology Series, 160. New York: Pergamon Press. 458 pp. $48.50 (cloth), $24.50 (paper).     

L.S. Vygotsky's Historical and Cultural Theory and Its Significance for Contemporary Studies of the Psychology of Personality

Problems concerning the activity of a human operator warrant discussion because under the conditions of modern scientific and technological progress, many of the directions of development of production and control involve automation and a complication of the technological process, i.e., an expansion of operator occupations. The development of automation increases the role of intellectual labor and gives rise to a number of problems that have not yet been dealt with by psychologists.     

The Psychology of Art

Eisenstein begins his article with the basic problem of all forms of art: how is theme or content changed from an object of reality into an object of art and what is the secret of the method of art? The rest of his presentation gives examples of different art forms to show how reality is transformed into art. Cinema has a special status among arts because best films “are larger than life.”     

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition.

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Michael Tomasello. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 248 pp.