Children’s books may provide an important resource of culturally appropriate emotions. This study investigates emotion displays in children’s storybooks for preschoolers from Romania, Turkey, and the US in order to analyze cultural norms of emotions.
Wolfgang eFriedlmeier
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Cross-cultural Interaction: The International Comparison Fallacy? [PDF]
Joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, licensing and distribution agreements, and sales of products and services—crucial aspects of all such interorganizational relationships, are face-to-face negotiations. As the proportion of foreign to domestic trade increases, so does the frequency of business negotiations between people from different countries
Adler, Nancy J, Graham, John L
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Alarming levels of stigma toward generalized dystonia: A cross-cultural comparison
Introduction: Although stigma has been linked to poor quality of life, studies examining its prevalence in dystonia are lacking. Our objective was to determine prevalence and predictors of stigma against generalized dystonia in diverse cultural settings.
Laila Gharzai +7 more
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Using self-categorization theory to uncover the framing of the 2015 Rugby World Cup: a cross-cultural comparison of three nations’ newspapers [PDF]
Research into the framing of sporting events has been extensively studied to uncover newspaper bias in the coverage of global sporting events. Through discourse, the media attempt to capture, build, and maintain audiences for the duration of sporting ...
Billings, Andrew C. +3 more
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Grammatical Structures in Cross-Cultural Comparisons
The article discusses how cultural information is embedded at the level of grammar and it treats grammar as inseparable from semantics and pragmatics. The study is done within the approach known as ethnosyntax. The article provides examples of cultural meaning embedded at the level of syntax relying on examples from Russian and English.
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Comparing distance education and conventional education: Observations from a comparative study of post‐registration nurses [PDF]
This retrospective study presents a comparison of assessment results achieved by distance‐learning students and classroom‐based students undertaking the same module in a degree course.
Duffy, Tim +3 more
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Chinese and Korean Consumers’ Preferences for Oolong and Black Oolong Teas
Both China and Korea have significant markets for tea; however, both the availability and preference for oolong and black oolong tea vary across the two markets.
Baihan Su, Jeehyun Lee
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Prospect Theory around the World [PDF]
We present results from the first large-scale international survey on risk preferences, conducted in 45 countries. We show substantial cross-country differences in risk aversion, loss aversion and probability weighting.
Hens, Thorsten +2 more
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Cross cultural comparison: the introduction of new technology with postgraduate students in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom [PDF]
Universities in the United Kingdom are developing collaborations with partners in the East often resulting in academic staff, with little understanding of Eastern cultures, imposing Western designed Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and lacking ...
Boulton, H
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Discourses on family time: the cultural interpretation of family togetherness in Los Angeles and Rome [PDF]
In this article, we examine U.S. and Italian parents' discourses on family time in parent-filled weekly activity charts and interviews with parents. Analysis indicates that in Los Angeles, California, parents talk about sheltering and isolating their ...
Fasulo, Alessandra +2 more
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