Cultural psychologists have shown that people from Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) countries often exhibit different psychological processing to people from less-WEIRD countries. The former exhibit more individualistic and less collectivistic social orientation, and more analytic and less holistic cognition, than non-Westerners. Yet the mechanisms responsible for mai...

This study addressed the issue of team support and explored the role of structural factors, namely, job enrichment designs; the role of cultural factors, namely, individualism–collectivism and power distance; and the role of the leader’s support, which served as support carrier in teams. With 56 nursing teams, the results demonstrated that whereas leader’s support, collectivism, and low power d...

This article presents the results of a series of preliminary comparisons, between the Portuguese and Romanian cultural contexts, on the individualism-collectivism (IND/COL) cultural dimension. The IND/COL was evaluated with the Individualism-Collectivism Questionnaire - ICQ -, constructed in New Zealand by Shulruf, Hattie and Dixon (2003, Anonymous Questionnaire of Self-Attitudes - AQSA), and a...

The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the correlation between cultural and psychological factors in relation to predicting eating disorders in two different non-clinical Italian (n = 61) and Swedish (n = 31) female populations, thought to have different cultures and lifestyles. The Swedish sample would reflect an emancipated model of women pursuing autonomy and freedom but also a...

This article examines the tensions, (dis)continuities, and precariousness of postcolonial identities in autobiographical writings Palestinian authors Ghada Karmi Raja Shehadeh. The question identity will be examined considering Gayatri Spivak’s conceptualisation strategic essentialism Kimberlé Crenshaw’s collective politics texts, as well concepts multiple affiliations by Amin Maalouf Chantal M...

It is generally recognized that descriptive and normative individualism are logically independent theses. This paper defends the stronger view that recognition of the falsehood of descriptive individualism is crucial to understanding the evolutionary and developmental basis of normative individualism. The argument given for this is not analytic; rather, it is based on empirical generalizations ...

Environmental consciousness is linked to pro-environmental consumption behavior; however, the consequences of variations in level environmental have not been fully investigated. Therefore, we evaluated differences individualism, collectivism, materialism, willingness pay (WTP) for protection, and between groups with varying levels consciousness. After evaluating factors that differentiate these...

The individualism-collectivism syndrome has considerable impact on many aspects of a society. Basedon theoretical frameworks, classroom observations, and teaching and learning experiences in ESL/EFLclassrooms, this study investigates the cultural orientations in L2 settings where classroom interactionand discourse, the goal of education, and the roles that teachers and students play...

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of culture on the trust determinants in e-commerce. The study adopts two broad trust building foundations (cognitionand affect-based trust) from cross-culture literature, focuses on one wellestablished cultural construct (i.e., individualism-collectivism) as groups of culture, develops a theoretical model of cognition-based versus affect-based e-Ve...

What is the Destiny of Social Networking Sites Data After the Data Owners Pass Away? 12 Competition Between Global and Local Online Social Networks 14 Users Key Locations in Online Social Networks: Identification and Applications 16 Building a Spam Free Social Network 18 Large Scale Topic Detection using Node-Cut Partitioning on Dense Weighted Graphs 20 Individualism and Collectivism in Social ...