The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology

Following hot on the heels of the third edition of A Dictionary of Psychology (Colman, 2009) (RR 2010/10) comes the larger The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology edited by David Matsumoto. It describes itself as “the first and only dictionary that surveys the broad discipline of psychology from an international, cross‐cultural and interdisciplinary focus”. It is always brave to claim something is the “first and only”. Although the members of the advisory editorial board are all at American universities, the list of managing editors and over one hundred contributors from a fair selection of countries is impressive and...