Editorial Note from Dr. Robert A. C. Stewart

Starting a New Year and new volume for 2011, we are happy to feature an integrative/heuristic paper from one of our Consulting Editors, Professor Harry C. Triandis.

Dr. Triandis has been on our Board of Consulting Editors since early 2001. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Illinois and a Fellow of three divisions of the American Psychological Association. His awards include APA’s Distinguished International Psychologist of the Year, Distinguished Lecturer of the Year, and the award for Distinguished Contributions to International Psychology. He received his PhD from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1958, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1987. He also earned the American Psychological Society’s prestigious James M. Cattell Award.

Dr. Triandis is a former Guggenheim Fellow, Fort Foundation Faculty Fellow, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology. He also served as a Distinguished Fulbright Professor and as President for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He has authored seven books, including Cultural and Social Behavior, and edited the six-volume Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology. His most recent book publication, Fooling Ourselves, received the William James Award of Division 1 (General Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.

His research interests have concerned (1) the links between behavior and elements of subjective culture and (2) differences between individualist and collectivist cultures. His work has been focused on the implications of these links for social behavior, personality, work behavior, intergroup relations, prejudice, attitude change, and cultural training; and applications to intercultural training for successful interaction in other cultures.