Previous research in cultural psychology shows that cultures vary in the social orientation of independence and interdependence. To date, however, little is known about how people may acquire such global patterns of cultural behavior or cultural norms. Nor is it clear what genetic mechanisms may underlie the acquisition of cultural norms. Here, we draw on recent evidence for certain genetic var...

Previous research has demonstrated that people from East Asian cultural backgrounds make broader, more complex causal attributions than do people from Western cultural backgrounds. In the current research, the authors hypothesized that East Asians also would be aware of a broader, more complex distribution of consequences of events. Four studies assessed cultural differences in perceptions of t...

The social psychological literature considers two main perspectives on the study of perceived cultural differences between majorities and minorities: one proposes that perception of cultural differences is an antecedent of prejudice and another states that the attribution of cultural differences to minorities is already a hidden expression of racial prejudice. This paper offers further support ...

one of the goals of comparative literature is to investigate the common and different aspects of cultural and historical background of people to better discover the connection between nations and civilizations. this paper compares the similarities in life and poetry of the two iranian & arbic poets sa' d salman & abu f oras hamdan both imprisoned for long period of time.

Cross-cultural user-interface designers should account for dimensions of cultures, e.g., the cultural anthropologist Hofstede's five dimensions when they conside potential design strategies. Recent publications suggest other deep cultural influences on the way people think, act, and feel, which suggest there may be cultural biases in traditional industry usability precepts.

abstract as literary texts have different layers, they are open to various political, social and cultural interpretations and readings. the main purpose of orators is to persuade their audience.thus, orators must be familiar with intra-textual factors (residing inside language) and situational factors (residing outside language), such as social, political, and cultural factors, in order to be a...

introduction: the need to have a safe relationship with other people is something substantial. on the basis of the fact that human beings have various lingual, ethnical, cultural, social as well as economical differences, social leniency is supposed to be the only way to provide a sound relationship without existence of any type of quarrel among people. the significance of attention to such a c...