John Berry, professor emeritus of the department of psychology at Queens University, will present, "Acculturation and Adaptation among Immigrants and Refugees," on Wednesday, April 14, at 7 p.m., in the Chemistry Auditorium. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs speakers series "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility."
Berry is well known for his research on intercultural relations, including immigrant and refugee adaptation, racism and ethnocentrism, and multiculturalism. He has been the principal investigator for several large-scale studies of refugee and immigrant adaptation in Canada, and in both cross-cultural and social psychology research; he is concerned about the application of knowledge to social policy. Berry's main research is in the area of cross-cultural psychology, with current projects dealing with acculturation and cognition.
Berry received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, and in 2001 he received honorary doctorates from the University of Athens and the University of Geneva. A Life Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, he received the Hebb Prize for "Contributions to Psychology as a Science" in 1998. He has published extensively, including the three-volume Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
