African Lisbon. Difficult Heritage, Postcolonial Relations, and Crosscultural Challenges The aim of this article is to synthetically capture cultural influences from former colonies various manifestations the „African presence” in today’s This presence”, a broad sense, includes number phenomena such as living conditions customs diaspora Lisbon, elements tourist offer city, activities afrodescen...

Cross-cultural psychologists seek to understand the nature of culture, a concept that can only be understood at the collective, supra-individual level. In most areas of psychology, researchers treat each individual as a separate source of data. Crosscultural psychologists therefore need a clear understanding of the relationship between individual-level and group or collective-level analysis. Se...

This article seeks to develop a framework for assessing the impacts of cultural values and beliefs on crosscultural training (CCT). It argues that culture affects CCT processes including the use of training methods, trainers’ selection, and trainees’ learning style. The article also reasons that the congruence between parent and host cultures tends to have influences on trainees’ attitudes and ...

This article presents an approach to crosscultural studies of advertising audiovisual material that departs from the typical rigid marketing models. It favours a more qualitative inductive approach to corpuses in which audiovisual texts are not approached or compared through the use of standardised American tools. After reviewing the usual marketing tools, the article focuses on the steps resea...

Background The Voice Handicap Index 30 (VHI-30) is a much-used voice specific quality of life questionnaire. A shortened 10 item version has been developed by eliminating redundant items using analyses. This the first Danish translation VHI-10. Objectives To evaluate psychometric properties VHI-10 Study design Cross-sectional survey study. Methods was answered 72 patients with disorders differe...


 Cross-cultural communication occurs between individuals and groups who have different cultural backgrounds. One case of in the perspective cross-cultural is Nias community Minangkabau Nagari Sungai Buluah Barat, Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra. This study aims to describe how tribal communities Barat using six dimensions proposed by Hofstede. The method used this research descriptive quali...

Controversies about the psychological implications of culture pervade the crosscultural management literature. When management scholars presume that psychological topics are universal, they are berated for their ethnocentrism (Boyacigiller & Adler, 1991; Wilpert, 1995). However, attempts to link psychology with culture face the dual perils of attributing psychological qualities to societies or ...

Linguistic markers of personality traits have been studied extensively, but few crosscultural studies exist. In this paper, we evaluate how native speakers of American English and Arabic perceive personality traits and naturalness of English utterances that vary along the dimensions of verbosity, hedging, lexical and syntactic alignment, and formality. The utterances are the turns within dialog...