It is well known that the Neolithic transition spread across Europe at a speed of about 1 km/yr. This result has been previously interpreted as a range expansion of the Neolithic driven mainly by demic diffusion (whereas cultural diffusion played a secondary role). However, a long-standing problem is whether this value (1 km/yr) and its interpretation (mainly demic diffusion) are characteristic...

The authors propose that individuals transitioning to a novel environment will prefer upward comparisons, particularly those made with individuals who have experienced a similar transition. Such comparisons help to reduce uncertainty and demonstrate that future success is possible. Study 1 found that individuals facing transitions to unfamiliar situations seek upward comparisons as a result of ...

THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD AND THE CONCEPT OF EMERGING ADULTHOOD 339 DIMENSIONS OF IDENTITY: PERSONAL AND CULTURAL 341 PERSONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE AND EMERGING ADULTHOOD: EARLY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS 341 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIG FIVE DISPOSITIONS FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD 346 THE ROLE OF AGENCY IN PERSONAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT 348 CULTURAL IDENTITY IN ADOLESCENCE AND EMERGING ...

This paper documents health problems faced by menopausal and postmenopausal women. These women constitute a sizable proportion of India’s population though there exist no health care programmes to cater their specific health needs and health vulnerabilities arose due to menopausal transition. Researchers have generally tried to determine age at menopause and a few have explored psychosomatic pr...

Most of the studies carried out on identification of barriers to knowledge sharing have focused on developing and developed countries. The purpose of this study was to explore the barrier factors inhibiting knowledge sharing in smalland medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies that have different social, cultural, and economic conditions as compared to other developing and develo...

OBJECTIVES Cultural variability (CV) is introduced as an overlooked dimension of cultural identity development pertaining to emphasizing and de-emphasizing the influence of a single cultural identity (i.e., cultural influence [CI]) on daily interactions and behaviors. The Cultural IDentity Influence Measure (CIDIM) is introduced as a novel measure of CI and CV, and hypothesis-driven validation ...

In recent years, far from arguing that evolutionary approaches to our own species permit us to describe the fundamental character of human nature, a prominent group of cultural evolutionary theorists has instead argued that the very idea of 'human nature' is one we should reject. It makes no sense, they argue, to speak of human nature in opposition to human culture. The very same sceptical argu...

Since youth transitions have been redefi ned as fl exible periods of change, it becomes diffi cult to conceptually distinguish them from any other transition period in people’s life. Transitions are here defi ned as involving three types of interdependent processes (social relocation, knowledge construction and meaning-making). From a cultural psychological perspective, youth transitions can be...