Latin-American Journal of Fundamental Psychopathology on Line, 4, 2, 185 192 This study aims to understand the meaning of the lived experience of depression in Brazil, Chile, and the United States, focusing on possible cultural variations that could contribute to its cross-cultural understanding. Between 2001 and 2004, 72 adults with either depression or with clinical records of depression (n=3...

Hierarchy can be conceptualized as objective social status (e.g., education level) or subjective social status (i.e., one's own judgment of one's status). Both forms predict well-being. This is the first investigation of the relative strength of these hierarchy-well-being relationships in the U.S. and Japan, cultural contexts with different normative ideas about how social status is understood ...

Since Aaron Wildavsky proposed in 1987 that cultural orientations such as egalitarianism and individualism frame public perceptions of technological risks, a body of empirical research has grown to affirm the risk-framing effects of personality and culture (Dake, 1991; Gastil et al., 2005; Kahan, 2008). Most of these studies have focused on relatively mundane risks, however, such as handguns, n...

In this paper it is argued that virtual reality represents a locus where general psychological processes can be investigated thanks to the fact that it epitomizes a characteristic that is proper to every human endeavor, namely the construction of reality. This presupposition is taken from Cultural Psychology and it insistence on cultural artifacts as key elements in human development. A brief p...

In this article, the contributions that Michael Thompson has made to the development of cultural theory are laid out. This is done by highlighting the ways in which Thompson has built upon the grid-group analysis of Mary Douglas. Thereafter, it is shown how cultural theory is compatible with, and can be strengthened by, the complexity theories that have been formulated within the natural scienc...

this paper seeks to document the specific structural patterns of bit hilanis architecture which were in used in the ancient near east from the second to the first millennium b.c. the recognition of bit hilanis architectural characteristics as well as their provenances and their spread from anatoly to palestine have always remained the important issues to be addressed by art historians and archa...

BACKGROUND Development of simple instruments for determination of self-care levels in heart failure (HF) patients is a subject of ongoing research. One such instrument, gaining growing popularity worldwide, is the European Heart Failure Self-care Behavior Scale (EHFScBS). The aim of this study was to adapt and to test reliability of the Polish version of EHFScBS. METHOD A standard guideline w...