Culture Psychology and its Future

Cultural Psychology is a radical new look in psychology that studies how persons and social-cultural worlds mutually constitute one another. With the increase of globalization and multicultural exchanges cultural psychology becomes the psychological science for the 21st century. Encounters with others fundamentally transform the way we understand ourselves. No longer can we ignore questions about how our cultural traditions practices beliefs artifacts and other people constitute how we approach understand imagine and remember the world. The Niels Bohr Professorship Lectures in Cultural Psychology series aims to highlight and develop new ideas that advance our understanding of these issues.

This first volume in the series features an address by Prof. Jaan Valsiner which is followed by ten commentary chapters and his response to them. In his lecture Valsiner explores what Niels Bohra's revolutionary principle of ai??complementaritya' can contribute to the development of a cultural psychology tha

Brady Wagoner Aalborg University Denmark

Nandita Chaudhary University of Delhi India

Pernille Hviid University of Copenhagen Denmark