Culture and Behavior Laboratory
Representative Publications
Culture:
Culture & Health:
Peace, Conflict, and Violence:
Culture and Behavior Laboratory

Flynn, P.M., Betancourt, H., & Ormseth, S.R. (2011). Culture, emotion, and cancer screening: An
integrative framework for investigating health behavior. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 42, 79-90.
(PDF)
Betancourt, H., Flynn, P.M., & Ormseth, S. R. (2011). Healthcare mistreatment and continuity of
cancer screening among Latino and Anglo American women in Southern California. Women &
Health, 51, 1, 1-24. (PDF)
Betancourt, H., Flynn, P.M., Riggs, M., & Garberoglio, C. (2010). A cultural research approach to
instrument development: The case of breast and cervical cancer screening among Latino and
Anglo women. Health Education Research, 25, 6, 991-1007 (PDF)
Betancourt, H. & Flynn, P.M. (2009). The psychology of health: Physical health and the role of
culture and behavior. In F.A. Villarruel, G. Carlo, J.M. Grau, M. Azmitia, N.J. Cabrera, T.J. Chahin
(Eds.), Handbook of U.S. Latino Psychology (pp. 347-361). Sage (PDF)
Betancourt, H. & Fuentes, J. L. (2001). Culture and Latino issues in health psychology. In S. S.
Kazarian & D. R. Evans (Eds.), Handbook of Cultural Health Psychology (pp. 305-321). San
Diego: CA: Academic Press. (PDF)
Koneru, V., Weisman de Mamani, A., Flynn, P., Betancourt, H. (2007). Acculturation and mental
health: Current findings and recommendations for future research. Applied and Preventive
Psychology, 12, 76-96. (PDF)
Triandis, H., Marin, G., Lisansky, J., & Betancourt, H. (1982). Simpatia as a cultural script of
Hispanics. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 6, 1363-1375. (PDF)
Betancourt, H. & Lopez, S. R. (1993). The study of culture, ethnicity, and race in American
psychology. American Psychologist, 48, 629-637. (PDF)
Betancourt, H., Hardin, C., & Manzi, J. (1992). Beliefs, value orientation, and culture in attribution
processes and helping behavior. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 23, 179-195. (PDF)
Betancourt, H. (1990). An attribution-empathy model of helping behavior: Behavioral intentions
and judgments of help-giving. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 16,3, 573-91. (PDF)
Betancourt, H. & Blair, I. (1992). A cognition (attribution)-emotion model of violence in conflict
situations. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18, 343-350. (PDF)
Betancourt, H. & Zaw, G. (2003). Culture, attribution processes, and conflict in multicultural
educational settings. In F. Salili (Ed.) Learning, Teaching, and Motivation in Multicultural
Settings. (PDF)
Betancourt, H. (2004). Attribution-emotion processes in White's realistic empathy approach to
conflict and negotiation. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 10, 4, 369-380. (PDF)
Betancourt, H. (2004). An attribution-empathy approach to conflict and negotiation in
multicultural settings. In M. Martinko (Ed), Attribution Theory in the Organizational Sciences,
243-256, Information Age Publishing. (PDF)