"Psychology opens students' eyes to similarity and diversity and explores selected cultural issues in depth to help students understand how social attitudes and customs shape everyday life. With separate chapters on adulthood and aging, health psychology, and gender issues, "Psychology gives attention to the topics that are important today.

This book is an intellectual and personal history of Richard Lazarus, a psychologist whose pioneering research and theories in stress, coping, and emotion continue to have a worldwide influence. The author interweaves the account of his personal life and career with the developments of psychology as an academic discipline during the past five decades. His reminiscences offer glimpses of academic life, university politics, and also his growing contacts with the European and Japanese colleagues who invited him to lecture. The book concludes with his thoughts about aging, retirement, and issues of life and death.