With the increasing demand for global communication between countries, it is imperative that we understand the importance of national culture in human communication on the World Wide Web (WWW). As we consider the vast array of differences in the way we think, behave, assign value, and interact with others, culture becomes a focal point in research of online communication. More than ever, cultur...

The Pirahã language challenges simplistic application of Hockett’s nearly universally accepted design features of human language by showing that some of these features (interchangeability, displacement, and productivity) may be culturally constrained. In particular, Pirahã culture constrains communication to nonabstract subjects which fall within the immediate experience of interlocutors. This ...

This article describes cross-cultural research on the relation between how people conceptualize nature and how they act in it. Mental models of nature differ dramatically among populations living in the same area and engaged in similar activities. This has novel implications for environmental decision making and management, including common problems. The research offers a distinct perspective o...

Most research into cognitive biases has used Western samples, despite potential East-West socio-cultural differences. One reason is the lack of appropriate measures for non-Westerners. This study is about cross-linguistic equivalence which needs to be established before assessing cross-cultural differences in future research. We developed parallel Mandarin and English measures of interpretation...

Symbolic cognition is one of the hallmarks of the human mind. Visual artists are able to create something new on canvas, something that did not exist previously and does not actually exist in reality, even when, at times, it closely resembles reality, precisely because of this abstract and symbolic cognition. What the creation expresses is what is on the artist’s mind, which includes conscious ...

In Origins of the Modern Mind, Merlin Donald has offered a provocative, compelling, and radically different view of cognition. It was a great pleasure to follow his convincing arguments on the evolution of the modern mind. I entirely agree on the nonbiological (external, social, cultural, and artificial) nature of cognition. In the first part of this commentary, I elaborate on some of Donald's ...

Innate cognitive capacities are orchestrated by cultural practices to produce high-level cognitive processes. In human activities, examples of this phenomenon range from everyday inferences about space and time to the most sophisticated reasoning in scientific laboratories. A case is examined in which chimpanzees enter into cultural practices with humans (in experiments) in ways that appear to ...

This review considers recent theoretical and empirical developments in cross-cultural studies within social and organizational psychology. It begins with a description of the importance and the difficulties of universalizing psychological science. It then continues with an examination of theoretical work on both the internal-proximal and the external-distal constraints that mediate culture's in...

objective: depression and anxiety literature in iran is short of cultural/indigenous studies, especially with regard to azeri ethnic group. this study was carried out in order to identify depression and anxiety aspects in azeri ethnic group. methods: in a cross sectional qualitative design, 32 azeri informants (14 patients, 13 lay people, and 5 professionals) recruited in the study using purpos...

Intercultural education is one important aspect of foreign language teachings nowadays. The ultimate goal learning a to improve intercultural communication abilities and realize cultural with foreigners. English teaching in higher vocational college hasn’t payed enough attention on education. Teachers are lacking cognition, knowledge practice teaching. Based the current situation education, pap...