The study of human growth and development throughout the life cycle, developmental psychology examines behavior from a biopsychosocial perspective. The psychology of development describes agerelated changes in behavior, personality, and physiological maturation. Growth and development are assumed to be embedded within the social environment, and normative biological processes progress through a...

People from Asian cultures are more influenced by context in their visual processing than people from Western cultures. In this study, we examined how these cultural differences in context processing affect how people interpret facial emotions. We found that younger Koreans were more influenced than younger Americans by emotional background pictures when rating the emotion of a central face, es...

This study examines factors stimulating women to choose entrepreneurship as their career. The main hypotheses are personality and cultural factors directly related intention in choosing entrepreneurship as a career. Respondents are 170 women entrepreneurs in district of Kinta, Perak. A structured 47 closed ended items questionnaires are used to collect data. This study uses quantitative method ...

The endowment effect--the tendency for owners (potential sellers) to value objects more than potential buyers do--is among the most widely studied judgment and decision-making phenomena. However, the current research is the first to explore whether the effect varies across cultures. Given previously demonstrated cultural differences in self-construals and self-enhancement, we predicted a smalle...

The style of product design for a country or a nationality is influenced by its essential traditional cultures and lifestyles. Recently, the importance of studying Taiwanese cultures has been shown repeatedly in several studies in design field. Despite the recognized importance of product design in cultural and creative industries, they lack a systematic approach to it. Therefore, the main purp...

Recent research on market orientation and close customer relationships addresses how firms create market intelligence and adapt to their environments. However, our understanding of market-oriented firms is incomplete because it does not fully incorporate with cultural linkages and collaboration in buyer-seller relationships. Actually, it has been neither investigated nor understood well the int...

INTRODUCTION: Perception of beauty is influenced by the individual’s geographic, ethnic, cultural, and demographic background. However, objective measurements remain the foundation for aesthetic evaluations. In the quest for to better define “ideal” lip characteristics, this study assumes interdependence between variables such as country of residence, sex, age, occupation, and aesthetic percept...

Background: Exclusive breastfeeding is the best pattern for feeding infants in the first 6 months of life. On the other hand, lactation patterns may be influenced by cultural factors. The present study aimed to determine relationships of Hofstede's cultural dimensions and lactation patterns in lactating mother. Material...

Motor development, which allows infants to explore their environment, promoting cognitive, social, and perceptual development, can be influenced by cultural practices and nutritional factors, such as iron deficiency. This study compared fine and gross motor development in 209 9-month-old infants from urban areas of China, Ghana, and USA (African-Americans) and considered effects of iron status....

Cultural dynamics can be heavily influenced by extremists. To better understand this influence, temporal dynamics of an arbitrary cultural belief are simulated in a simple computational model. Extremist agents, holding an immutable and extreme belief, are used to examine the process of polarization – adoption of the extremist belief by the entire population. Two possible methods of counteractin...