Human beings are inherently cultural beings -- growing up in an environment that is steeped in culture and developing our self-construal accordingly. The new psychology book series "Self in Culture in Mind" gathers current research per-spectives on this issue. This first volume sets the stage by examining the unfolding of self from a broad range of de-velopmental perspectives. Each chapter suggests a specific theoretical approach and provides original research within it. Together they document culturally mediated development at different stages of life and in different cultural settings, as ob-served by appropriate scientific methods.