Researchers have shown that bicultural individuals, including 2nd-generation immigrants, face a potential conflict between 2 cultural identities. The present authors extended this primarily qualitative research on the bicultural experience by adopting the social identity perspective (H. Tajfel & J. C. Turner, 1986). They developed and tested an empirically testable model of the role of cultural...

Cultural heritage use is often a point of friction between antagonistic groups in intrastate conflict. In other instances, may facilitate intergroup contact and provide space for conflict transformation. The Cyprus issue not an exception to this phenomenon. Although one the most researched frozen cases, cultural vis-à-vis transformation relatively understudied focusing primarily on tangible pro...

Relatively little consideration has heretofore been given to the interaction between Western clinical research ethics and non-Western ethical expectations. How should any conflict that might arise when a biomedical investigator and a research subject come from different cultural settings and have different ethical expectations be addressed? Which ethics should govern such trans-cultural clinica...

For people influenced by collectivistic cultures, the encounter of negative social exchanges may be particularly detrimental as harmonious and balanced interpersonal relationships are highly valued. Focusing on Asian Americans, this study examines the relative importance of three domains of negative versus positive social exchanges on psychological distress, and how acculturation-related factor...

This paper looks at key elements of global culture that are driving a new paradigm shift in museums causing them to question their raison d’être, design and physical space, recognizing the need accommodate visitor interaction participation, reprioritize institutional outcomes goals reexamining priorities. As heritage sharing online spaces reaches across national, political, social boundaries on...

This is a review of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion. Drawing upon research on Germans converting to Islam and Turks converting to Christianity, converting is understood as complex fusion of individual choice and cultural/political conflict.