This paper presents a review of characteristics that might be appropriate factors to predict job success, followed by a preliminary model that could be incorporated into a more specific model once data becomes available for testing the model. The eventual model could add value to the process of making software testing task assignments by considering certain employee traits that would lead to an...

Historical evolution and cross-cultural differences in spatial abilities are analyzed. Spatial abilities have been found to be significantly associated with the complexity of geographical conditions and survival demands. Although impaired spatial cognition is found in cases of, exclusively or predominantly, right hemisphere pathology, it is proposed that this asymmetry may depend on the degree ...

Schedule Received 31 Revised 32 Accepted 33 Abstract Recent debates about memetics have revealed some widespread misunderstandings about Darwinian approaches to cultural evolution. Drawing from these debates, this paper disputes five common claims: (1) mental representations are rarely discrete, and therefore models that assume discrete, gene-like particles (i.e., replicators) are useless; (2) ...

This essay suggests that institutional theory has much to offer the SoTL movement by identifying the specific forces that oppose teaching and learning initiatives and offering solutions for nudging cultural change towards the desired outcomes.

BACKGROUND Recent cross-cultural comparisons between Asian and Western cultures have shown that ageism arises more from the lack of availability of social and economic resources for older adults than from the culture itself. We tested this assumption by conducting a survey among people living in a least developed country compared with those living in a developed country. PARTICIPANTS AND METH...

Let A be a bounded, relatively closed subset of the upper half plane H whose complement in H is simply connected. If Bt is a standard complex Brownian motion and τA = inf{t ≥ 0 : Bt 6∈ H \A}, the half-plane capacity hcap(A) is defined as hcap(A) := lim y→∞ y E [Im(BτA)] . This quantity arises in the study of Schramm-Loewner Evolutions (SLE). In this note, we show that hcap(A) is comparable to a...

Human populations have extraordinary capabilities for generating behavioural diversity without corresponding genetic diversity or change. These capabilities and their consequences can be grouped into three categories: strategic (or cognitive), ecological and cultural-evolutionary. Strategic aspects include: (i) a propensity to employ complex conditional strategies, some certainly genetically ev...

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Transitions to democracy are most often considered the outcome of historical modernization processes. Socio-economic changes, such as increases in per capita GNP, education levels, urbanization and communication, have traditionally been found to be correlates or 'requisites' of democratic reform. However, transition times and the number of reform steps have not been studied comprehensively. Her...

Social comparison theory maintains that people think about themselves compared with similar others. Those in one culture, then, compare themselves with different others and standards than do those in another culture, thus potentially confounding cross-cultural comparisons. A pilot study and Study 1 demonstrated the problematic nature of this reference-group effect: Whereas cultural experts agre...