This article aims to advance an interactionally sensitive, emic view of intercultural communication by exploring the organization of “intercultural moments” in conversation—moments during which cultural and linguistic differences between people become exposed. Field video recordings of ordinary face-to-face interactions in Russian–American immigrant families are analyzed using the methodology o...

Five studies examined how people who are answering questions on behalf of another person may use their own knowledge to answer correctly while attributing authorship of their answers to the other. Experiments 1 and 2 found that participants instructed to answer yes/no questions randomly were unable to do so. They were more often correct on easy than hard questions, and extended opportunity and ...

Hypnotic Ss received posthypnotic suggestions (a) to begin all sentences to the ostensible experimental (Taffel) task with "he" and "they," and (b) to be unaware of and amnesic for this fact. Waking simulator Ss received identical suggestions preceded by instructions to behave later as though they had been hypnotized when they received the suggestions. During a postexperimental inquiry with a d...

This article is a call for volunteers to stand on the shoulders of Gabriel Tarde and Pitirim Sorokin, who dared to theorize the process of diffusion over a wide variety of disciplines. While all of the social sciences and humanities regularly produce case studies of diffusion, theorizing seems paralyzed. This paralysis stems from the ostensible incommensurability of diffusing items; their refus...

We present in this paper a novel ontological theory of events whose central tenet is the Aristotelian distinction between object that changes and actual subject change, which what we call an individual quality. While Kimian tradition are individuated by triple ? o , P t ?, where object, property, interval time, for us simplest qualitative changes, q quality inhering or one its parts. Detaching ...

The global Internet has emerged to become an integral part of everyday life. Internet is now as fundamental a part of the infrastructure as is the telephone system or the road network. Peer-toPeer (P2P) is the logical antithesis of the Client-Server (CS) paradigm that has been the ostensible predominant paradigm for IP-based networks since their inception. Current research indicates that P2P ap...