Creativity and Culture: Nigerian Conceptions

Culture and conceptions of adulthood.

Conceptions of Culture and Person for Psychology

Innovation and Creativity among Gaming Culture

The lines by Paul Weller captured a moment in time in the late 70’s but interestingly they also reveal something of the dynamics of 21 century mod scene. And today, I’m not talking about kids wearing smart suits and riding fancy scooters but gamer-made modifications of computer games that are celebrated as a new medium for artistic innovation and simultaneously successfully used as a marketing ...

Cultural competence and psychotherapy: Applying anthropologically informed conceptions of culture.

The authors apply two contemporary notions of culture to advance the conceptual basis of cultural competence in psychotherapy: Kleinman's (1995) definition of culture as what is at stake in local, social worlds, and Mattingly and Lawlor's (2001) concept of shared narratives between practitioners and patients. The authors examine these cultural constructs within a clinical case of an immigrant f...

When astronomy, biology, and culture converge: children's conceptions about birthdays.

The authors investigated the development of children's understanding of birthdays using structured interviews of 102 Israeli children aged 4 to 9 years. To fully comprehend the concept of birthday, children must grasp the relationship between the social occasion (the birthday party), irreversible biological growth, and the cyclical nature of the calendar. The authors' findings affirmed that a c...