John Berry
John Berry is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Queen’s University, Canada, and Research Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
He has published over 30 books in the areas of cross-cultural, intercultural, social and cognitive psychology with various colleagues. These include Cross-Cultural Psychology: Research and Applications (3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2011); Immigrant Youth in Cultural Transition (LEA, 2006); Ecology, Culture and Human Development (Sage, 2017); Berry, J.W. (Ed.) (2017) Mutual intercultural relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); Lebedeva, N, R. Dimitrova & Berry, J.W. (2018) (eds). Value and identity change in post-communist societies (Berlin: Springer); and Berry, J.W. (2019). Acculturation: A personal journey across cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
John is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, and the International Academy for Intercultural Research.His main research interests are in the role of ecology and culture in human development and in acculturation and intercultural relations, with an emphasis on applications to immigration, multiculturalism, educational and health policy.
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