نتایج جستجو برای: cultural variations

تعداد نتایج: 325712  

پایان نامه :وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری - دانشگاه شیخ بهایی - دانشکده زبانهای خارجی 1391

phatic communion is a cultural concept which differs across cultures. according to hofstede (2001), the u.s. tends to have individualistic culture; however, asian countries tend to have collectivistic cultures. these cultures view phatic communion differently. in individualistic cultures like u.s., phatic communion reflects speakers’ socio-cultural relationships in conversations. to see whether...

2007
Torkil Clemmensen Qingxin Shi Jyoti Kumar Huiyang Li Xianghong Sun Pradeep Yammiyavar

The cultural diversity of users of technology challenges our methods for usability evaluation. In this paper we report on a multi-site, cross-cultural grounded theory field study of think aloud testing in seven companies in three countries (Denmark, China and India). The theoretical model that emerges from the data suggests that the production of a usability problem list is multi-causal and sub...

Journal: :CoRR 2013
Liane Gabora

Holland's (1975) genetic algorithm is a minimal computer model of natural selection that made it possible to investigate the effect of manipulating specific parameters on the evolutionary process. If culture is, like biology, a form of evolution, it should be possible to similarly abstract the underlying skeleton of the process and develop a minimal model of it. Meme and Variations, or MAV, is ...

2001
Archana Singh-Manoux Catrin Finkenauer ARCHANA SINGH-MANOUX CATRIN FINKENAUER

Prior research has established that the " social sharing " of emotions is an integral part of an emotional experience. Whereas earlier studies have focused on universal features of sharing (e.g., rate, frequency, delay), this study investigates social and relational aspects of sharing hypothesized to be more open to cultural variation. A total of 555 adolescents from the Indian, immigrant India...

2006
Rachel Seginer Gisela Trommsdorff Cecilia Essau

This article reports of two studies addressing the meaning of primary and secondary control beliefs for transition to modernity and modern adoles­ cents. Study 1 participants (N = 365) were Malaysian (transition to mod­ ernity), and German and North American (modern) adolescents. Study 2 participants (N = 757) were Israeli Druze (transition to modernity) and Israeli Jewish (modern) adolescents....

Journal: :Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc 2014
Sana Sheikh

The diverse literature on shame has led to disparate and often contradictory conclusions regarding the emotion's nature and consequences. The article proposes a motivational theory of shame that accounts for these discrepant findings. The first part of the article uses the concept of active avoidance to outline a dynamic motivational perspective in which shame is based initially in behavioral i...

Journal: :Developmental psychology 2014
Shigehiro Oishi Vikram K Jaswal Angeline S Lillard Ai Mizokawa Hidefumi Hitokoto Yoshiro Tsutsui

We conducted 3 studies to explore cultural differences in global versus local processing and their developmental trajectories. In Study 1 (N = 363), we found that Japanese college students were less globally oriented in their processing than American or Argentine participants. We replicated this effect in Study 2 (N = 1,843) using a nationally representative sample of Japanese and American adul...

2014
Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler

The purpose of this reading is to highlight the importance of play for children's development and to examine the role of parents in supporting children's play in various cultures. Although play is believed to be universal, the amount of attention devoted to play in a particular society depends in part on the cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood, and on the adults' specific goals for t...

Journal: :Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology 2017
Gail M Ferguson Jacqueline Nguyen Maria I Iturbide

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 ...

Journal: :Interface focus 2017
Tim Lewens

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...

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