In her article, "Gender, Literature, and Film in Contemporary East Central European Culture," Anikó Imre discusses gender, literature, and film in Hungary in the context of East Central European national cultures of the 1980s and 1990s. Anikó Imre analyzes the analogous gender structures that underlie both nation and literature in these transitional cultures. She challenges both social science ...

Culture collections contain indispensable information about the microorganisms preserved in their repositories, such as taxonomical descriptions, origins, physiological and biochemical characteristics, bibliographic references, etc. However, information currently accessible in databases rarely adheres to common standard protocols. The resultant heterogeneity between culture collections, in term...

One element of the Bologna process are ECTS grades that should be reported together with national grades. While ECTS grades are norm-referenced, most national grading systems in the European Union are criterion-referenced. As “proper statistical methods” were one of the main requirements for establishing ECTS grades (ECTS User’s Guide: European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System and the Di...

Choice can produce a negatively arousing cognitive conflict (called dissonance), which is thought to motivate the chooser to spread their preferences for the relevant options (called Spreading of Alternatives, or SA). The current work aimed to determine the relationship between HPA-axis activity and both choice-induced dissonance and its reduction (i.e. SA) among individuals with varying cultur...

Previous research has found cultural differences in the frequency of support seeking. Asians and Asian Americans report seeking support from their close others to deal with their stress less often compared to European Americans. Similarly, other research on professional help seeking has shown that Asians and Asian Americans are less likely than European Americans to seek professional psychologi...

In this paper, we propose to investigate the role played by trust in structuring and shaping offshoring processes and to explore how cultural differences interfere within this interfim relationship. We have built upon the conception of trust as an organizing principle to address the two levels : the individual level and the organizational level. A case study has been conducted within a European...