Poortinga, Y(pe) H.

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POORTINGA, Y(pe) H.

POORTINGA, Y(pe) H. Dutch, b. 1939. Genres: Education, Psychology. Career: Tilburg University, Tillburg, Netherlands, professor of cross-cultural psychology. Publications: Cross-cultural Comparison of Maximum Performance Tests: Some Methodological Aspects and Some Experiments with Simple Auditory and Visual Stimuli, 1971; (with B.I.M. Foden) A Comparative Study of Curiosity in Black and White South African Students, 1975; Basic Problems in Cross-cultural Psychology: Selected Papers from the Third International Congress of the International Association for Cross- cultural Psychology Held at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 1977; (with L.H. Echensberger and W.J. Lonner) Cross-cultural contributions to Psychology: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Congress of the International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology, held at Munich, Federal Republic of Germany, July 28-August 5, 1978, 1979; (with M.H. Se- gall, P.R. Dasen, and J.W. Berry) Human Behavior in Global Perspective: An Introduction to Cross-cultural Psychology, 1990; (with M.H. Segall, P.R. Dasen, and J.W. Berry) Cross-cultural Psychology: Research and Applications, 1991. EDITOR: (with I.R. Laguines) From a Different Perspective: Studies of Behavior across Cultures: Selected Papers from the Seventh International Conference of the International Association for Cross-cultural Psychology Held at Acapulco, Mexico, August 29-September 1, 1984, 1985; (with H. Keller and A. Schölmerich) Between Culture and Biology: Perspectives on Ontogenetic Development, 2002. Address: Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands. Online address: [email protected]

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