We have been told by the white men . . . That God sent to men His Son . . . And we have been told that Jesus the Christ was crucified, but that He shall come again at the last judgment . . . This 1 understand and know that it is true, but the white man should know that for the red people, too, it was the will of Wakan-Tanka, the Great Spirit . . . To bring the most holy pipe to His people. — Bl...

The present study is a cross-cultural comparison of typical dreams of “being chased” between Tibetan and Han Chinese dreamers. The research is based on 208 interviews combined with responses to a Dream Questionnaire. In total 569 subjects were involved in the research project: 278 Tibetan and 291 Han undergraduate college students. Results show an overall occurrence of a being-chased dream in 9...

Our previous work on real-valued function optimization problems had shown that cultural learning emerged as the result of meta-level interaction or swarming of knowledge sources, “knowledge swarms” in the belief space. These meta-level swarms induced the swarming of individuals in the population space, “Cultural Swarms”. The interaction of these knowledge sources produced emergent phases of pro...

Communication is a transaction in which man invents and assigns meanings to achieve its objectives. In this context, psychological theories of communication emphasize different components of human communication, including attitudes, intentions and conditions required for effective communication. In psychological models of communication, the source is influenced by its communicational abilities,...

Although many companies invest in the implementation of workflow systems to automate, streamline and improve their business processes, only few studies have investigated the actual impact such systems make on the organization. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of literature on the impact that these systems have on the operational processes and the organization in a broad sense; fr...