Mental time travel (MTT) is the ability to mentally project oneself backward in time to relive past experiences and forward in time to pre-live possible future experiences. Previous work has focused on MTT in its voluntary (controlled) form. Here, we introduce the notion of involuntary (spontaneous) MTT. We examined involuntary versus voluntary and past versus future MTT in a diary study. We fo...

Listening comprehension is at the heart of language learning (Kurita, 2012). It is an importantlanguage skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA) (Dunkel, 1991; Rost,2001; Vandergrift, 2007).In spite of its importance, L2 learners often regard listening as themost difficult language skill to learn. In this study, shadowing as an act or task in listening, inwhich the learner...

Previous research has revealed differences in how people value and pursue positive affect in individualistic and collectivistic cultural contexts. Whereas Euro-Americans place greater value on high activation positive affect (HAP; e.g., excitement, enthusiasm, elation) than do Asian Americans and Hong Kong Chinese, the opposite is true for low activation positive affect (LAP; e.g., calmness, se...

Previous research has revealed differences in how people value and pursue positive affect in individualistic and collectivistic cultural contexts. Whereas Euro-Americans place greater value on high activation positive affect (HAP; e.g., excitement, enthusiasm, elation) than do Asian Americans and Hong Kong Chinese, the opposite is true for low activation positive affect (LAP; e.g., calmness, se...

traditional calligraphy is known as one of the most valuable islamic arts which always contains unknown parts. one of these parts is uncommon and unknown scripts of manuscripts. in iran, given to the valuation of writing and manuscript as well as the presence of various art schools in different islamic centuries, many manuscripts have been written and collected which now many of these works are...

This paper is entitled ”Translating Chinese calligraphy into Indonesian: A Philological Approach.” Furthermore, the researcher intends to: (1) present a translation of script in Indonesian, (2) express moral message contained script. study used philological approach, which consisted manuscript research methods and text editing, utilizing Lucien Goldman’s theory explanation. Based on found Tjong...

This commentary discusses the anthropological implications of Richard Widess’ paper by summarizing some anthropological approaches to music, especially focusing on the way musical participation inculcates and transmits an aesthetic orientation that guides action across cultural domains such as politics, economics and religion. The paper ends by suggesting that the heart of human culture is more...

This paper reports findings from the initial stage of a funded collaborative research program aimed at identification of E-Commerce cultural change and technology uptake experience in Australia and comparison of Australian and United States experience. In collaboration with Georgia State University and employing the study script and methodology used in their landmark American research series, t...

Educational discourse is an important area for impact, which is especially timely given recent attention given to online education. In this talk I will first present a theoretical account of the complex interplay between written or oral discourse, individual cognitive processes, and external guidance in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments. Based on the Script Theory of...

The scripting of sexual encounters among young people in Kenyan is described using results of 28 focus group discussions conducted with young people attending primary school standard 7, from four different ethnic groups and living in 22 different communities. Sexual encounters were described as both mundane and inevitable and followed a predetermined scripted sequence of events and interactions...