When faced with adverse situations in exchange relationships, the people involved are required to respond. Response strategies are reactions to such adverse situations and represent cognitive schemata organized in an integrated structure forming a mental map. Extant response strategy research implicitly assumes that the content and internal structure of response strategies is universal, but wit...

We set out an account of how self-domestication plays a crucial role in the evolution of language. In doing so, we focus on the growing body of work that treats language structure as emerging from the process of cultural transmission. We argue that a full recognition of the importance of cultural transmission fundamentally changes the kind of questions we should be asking regarding the biologic...

This paper explores the linkage between organizational structure and cross-cultural management. It suggests that a fluid and continuously evolving structure enables effective crosscultural management. In support of this proposition, the paper reports on the experience of one of the world’s largest financial services corporations – a Swiss Bank. The bank adopted a different type of organizationa...

the aim of this study is to investigate into the relationship between parents' cultural capital and their tendency toward gender discrimination. many analysts and social theorists believe that cultural capital is one of the main factors which determines the cultural, economic, political and social structure. in addition, in this study gender discrimination, is examined so we have used the ...

Short title: Language from cultural recycling of neural substrates Abstract Cultural evolution has emerged as a key source of explanation for the emergence of complex linguistic structure in the human lineage. In this chapter, we argue that the cultural evolution of language has been shaped by non-linguistic constraints deriving from the human brain. By analogy to reading, novel cortical networ...