Efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 virus based on recommendations from government agencies across world, such as physical distancing requirements, propelled university and college training programs into virtual learning environments in 2020. This unprecedented largely unplanned shift online/remote has led novel pedagogical experiences for instructors, particularly those teaching field h...

Over the last two decades, the multi-dimensional notion of job performance has been fully brought to life. The differentiation between core task performance and various aspects of discretionary work behaviour is now commonly applied. A multitude of empirical studies, enhancing our knowledge of the antecedents and consequences of the different performance aspects, have recently been summarised t...

encounters with patients can have a dramatic effect on their health and quality of life, whether this is through sight-restoring surgery or corrective spectacles. The relative affluence of medical staff in some countries and the availability of cheap international flights means that it is easy for these doctors, nurses, orthoptists, etc. to take leave and parachute themselves into another count...

In this preliminary study, we measured event-related potentials (ERPs) to melodic expectancy violations in a crosscultural context. Subjects (n = 10) were college-age students born and raised in the United States. Subjects heard 30 short melodies based in the Western folk tradition and 30 from North Indian classical music. Each melody was presented in its original and deviation form, and subjec...

In cyberworlds as well as in real world environments there is a need to enable cooperation and communication. While IT support has enabled us to overcome the barriers of time and place in communication over distance, there is still the problem of bridging the gap across different cultures. In this paper we will study the possibility of IT support for "sharing culture", i.e. for communication ac...

Crosscultural studies of cognitive development preceded studies of cultural leaming. The former studies made an implicit assumption that culture is external whereas development is internal. Bruner’s cultural psychology (1990) and Tomasello, Kruger, and Ratner’s cultural learning (1993) assume, by contrast, that culture is inside the individual, that human beings are intrinsically social and pri...

This study adapts an information processing perspective and incorporates the construct of ethnic identity (Phinney, 1990) into research on perceptions of one method of organizational recruitment, the use of recruitment brochures. Based on theory in developmental and crosscultural psychology, we posited ethnic identity moderates the impact of recruitment brochures on recruitment outcomes (i.e., ...

Cultural bias in the mental health assessment and psychiatric diagnosis of ethnic minorities has been asserted and challenged on the basis of clinical impression and a variety of psychometric criteria. The lack of a definitive empirical basis to resolve issues of assessment and diagnostic bias means that the null hypothesis (no bias or cross-cultural uniformity) prevails. This article argues th...

The ethnopharmacology of Madeira and Porto Santo Islands is extremely interesting because of the cultural and biogeographic features of this region, which make it a centre of medicinal plant diversity (richness of endemic flora, geographical isolation in the Atlantic sea, crosscultural influences, and past abundance of local healers). The medicinal flora of Madeira is composed of 259 species. S...

Research has shown that Americans focus more on focal objects of a scene while East Asians attend to the surrounding environment (Nisbett, 2003; Nisbett & Miyamoto, 2005). The panels of comic books—the sequential frames of images— highlight aspects of a scene comparably to how attention focuses on parts of a spatial array. Thus, comparison of American and Japanese comics can inform cross-cultur...