Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: I. Mechanisms Underlying Geographical Variation in States, Traits, and Behaviors -- ch. 1 Where on Earth Do Collectivists Live? Climato-Economic Impacts on Ingroup Love and Outgroup Hate / Huadong Yang -- ch. 2 Regional Differences in Individualism and Why They Matter / Laura Janelle Gornick -- ch. 3 Pathogen Prevalence and Geographical Variation in Traits and Behavior / Mark Schaller -- ch. 4 Personality and the Realization of Migration Desires / Markus Jokela -- ch. 5 Personality Traits and Spatial Ecology in Nonhuman Animals / Andrew Sih -- II. Geographical Representation of Social Psychological Phenomena -- ch. 6 Geographical Differences in Personality / Peter J. Rentfrow -- ch. 7 Big Five Personality Differences and Political, Social, and Economic Conservatism: An American State-Level Analysis / Stewart J.H. McCann -- ch. 8 Investigating the Subjective Well-Being of United States Regions / Nicole M. Lawless -- ch. 9 The City Where We Live Matters: The Psychology of Cities / Christopher Peterson -- ch. 10 Finding Values in Words: Using Natural Language to Detect Regional Variations in Personal Concerns / James W. Pennebaker -- III. Person X Environment Interactions -- ch. 11 Residential Mobility Affects Self-Concept, Group Support, and Happiness of Individuals and Communities / Shigehiro Oishi -- ch. 12 People, Culture, and Place: How Place Predicts Helping Toward Strangers / Robert V. Levine -- ch. 13 The Psychogeography of Creativity / Charlotta Mellander -- ch. 14 Places, Products, and People "Make Each Other Up": Culture Cycles of Self and Well-Being / Hazel Rose Markus -- ch. 15 The Tyneside Neighborhoods Project: Investigating the Psychological Geography of One British City / Agathe Colleony.

The places where people live vary considerably in terms of their social, economic, political, climatic, and physical characteristics. These conditions affect how people from different regions behave and interact with their environments and each other. This book makes the case that understanding of psychological phenomena can be greatly informed by a cross-disciplinary perspective that investigates the spatial organisation and geographical representation of such phenomena and the mechanisms that are responsible. The research described in this volume indicates that personality, political ideology, well-being, happiness, human virtues, and personal concerns are related to several important geographic social indicators.

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