Following Hofstede’s “Culture’s Consequences”, the management field has studied crosscultural issues intensely. However, this research has largely overlooked cultural variability within countries. The focus has been on national averages and one’s nationality has been frequently equated to one’s cultural values. This multilevel multivariate meta-analysis of 508 studies shifts the emphasis from c...

The adaptation of psychological instruments is a complex process that requires a high methodological rigor. Because there is no consensus in the literature about its steps, this article discuss some essential aspects regarding the crosscultural adaptation of psychological instruments and proposes guidelines to the researchers about the different steps of this process. Some considerations regard...

We investigate whether psychological wellbeing translates across English and Spanish Twitter, by building and comparing source language and automatically translated weighted lexica in English and Spanish. We find that the source language models perform substantially better than the machine translated versions. Moreover, manually correcting translation errors does not improve model performance, ...

Text analysis traditions in France and the United States include discourse analysis, critical linguistics, French functional linguistics, Bakhtinian dialogics, and “generous reading.” These frames have not been used, however, in crosscultural analysis of university student writing. The author presents a study of 250 student texts from French and U.S. introductory university courses, using a met...

It is important to explore and interpret the dynamics ot cultural differencesand racism in clinical work. Raceand culture often play a significant role in any psychotherapeutic relationship. Vignettes and clinical narratives are used to illustrate that they can be a useful vehicle for the expression of transferences, demonstrating how basic concepts of psychotherapy apply to crosscultural inter...

Website quality has been given much attention as of late. In particular the factors that impact a consumer’s perception of website quality is of great interest. This paper takes a currently validated measure of business-toconsumer website quality (WebQualTM) and applies it to the Chinese Web users in order to study the crosscultural differences and similarities of US and Chinese customers.