Nisbett et al. (2001) claim that Easterners are more likely to use holistic thinking to solve problems, whereas Westerners are more likely to use analytic thinking. This distinction in cognitive behaviors has often been explained by using a framework based on the fact that Western culture favors independent self-construal (individualist culture) and Eastern culture favors interdependent self-co...

Finding a date or spouse online is usually considered an individualistic endeavor in Western cultures. This presents challenge for collectivist non-Western cultures such as Saudi Arabia where choosing viewed union of two families with parents both spouses being heavily involved. Our work aims to investigate how Arabian view the utilization technology by their young adults seek potential online....

Psychological differences between women and men, far from being invariant as a biological explanation would suggest, fluctuate in magnitude across cultures. Moreover, contrary to the implications of some theoretical perspectives, gender differences in personality, values, and emotions are not smaller, but larger, in American and European cultures, in which greater progress has been made toward ...

In this chapter, I examine whether information ethics is culture relative. If it is, different approaches to information ethics are required in different cultures and societies. This would have major implications for the current, predominantly Western approach to information ethics. If it is not, there must be concepts and principles of information ethics that have universal validity. What woul...

background: role of dietary modifications on the treatment and management of diabetes and complications was shown by many researchers. this study was designed to examine the association of major dietary patterns with diabetes-related cardio-metabolic risk factors in iranian diabetes. methods: totally, 525 type 2 diabetic subjects with mean age 55 ± 10 yr were included in this cross-sectional st...

Abstract Data protection law has emerged as an important bulwark against online privacy intrusions, and yet its status within remains awkward. Its starting point of protecting ‘personal’ rather than ‘private’ information puts it at odds with more generally. Indeed, in very design, data caters for the public personal information, or which attained a degree publicness through disclosure. Building...

BACKGROUND In the Western world, it is widely accepted as natural - and seen almost as a law of nature - that mankind is divided into two sexes or genders - males and females. In many cultures and societies, however, more than two sex and/or gender categories are recognized, which in some instances refer to the biological sex and in others to gender roles and social status. AIMS To give an in...

The ERP adoption rate in developing countries in Asia is very low. Apart from obvious differences in relative wealth of organizations in Western versus most Asian countries, the literature suggests that national cultures of the Asian countries, which are quite different to the culture of the Western world—the birth place of ERP—may be one reason for such low adoption rates in developing countri...