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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Cultural psychology"”.
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PERCEPTION OF RACISM IN AMBIGUOUS EVENTS: A CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY ANALYSIS
… to over-perceive racism. This paper applies a cultural psychology analysis to this phenomenon and suggests a more neutral account of the differences. This study examined whether engagement with history knowledge and various identity constructions (national and racial identity) were related to …
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Religious Belief, Coping, and Mental Health in Seventh-day Adventists
… in 401 Seventh-day Adventists. Based on cross cultural psychology guidelines, Adventist Sabbath and eschatology belief measures were created and integrated into a religious coping framework. Sabbath and eschatology belief measures, the brief RCOPE, two social support scales, and the Medical …
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Sojourning in the Margin: Living as Wives of International Students
… an examination of theoretical frames: from the cultural shock literature, acculturative stress literature, to atheoretical studies; and from cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, to indigenous psychology. Methodologically, this study is qualitative in nature, utilizing interview data …
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Exploring Meanings of Identity, Selfhood, and Migration in the Lives of First- Generation Gujarati Asian Indian Americans: A Narrative Study
… to address this paucity in research within cultural psychology. Central to the present research are questions of migration, self, and identity, specifically, identity of `second wave' Gujarati Asian Indian immigrants in the United States living in the larger Pittsburgh area. …
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The Effects of Individualism Vs. Collectivism on Learner's Recall, Transfer and Attitudes Toward Collaboration and Individualized Learning
… achievement between groups exhibiting different cultural dimensions in a particular online instructional environment. Variables were measured concerning the relationship between instructional environments, cultural dimensions and online learner preference. The subjects of this study were a …
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Two Essays On Cross-Country Differences In Corporate Dividend Policies
… perspectives. The first essay is based on a cultural psychology perspective and hypothesizes that national culture has an important impact on dividend policies through traditional `bird in hand', signaling, agency and pecking order theories. The hypotheses are supported by empirically robust …
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Competitive personality and work outcomes: A meta-analysis and scale development
… as it emerged in four adjacent subfields within psychology (i.e., health psychology, psychology of gender, cross-cultural psychology, and psychoanalysis). Third, I compile the most-used measures of competitive personality (most of which have not been labeled “competitive personality”), and …
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Culturally based story understanding
… of human intelligence must include an account of cultural influences on story understanding. The research reported takes a step toward accounting for cultural differences computationally by extending the Genesis story understanding system so as to enable Genesis to model Chinese and American …
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Individual and Holistic Information Processing
Significant research in cultural psychology has underlined differences in Eastern and Western cultures. While differences in many cognitive domains have been examined, there is a gap in cross cultural research on information processing and integration. This research explores the effect of …
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The Cultural Shaping of Depression: A Qualitative Investigation Into Afghan Women’s Perspectives on Depression
… widely researched areas in the field of cross-cultural psychology. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the number of people diagnosed as having this disorder has increased substantially not only in Western cultures, but also in Asian cultures. While much literature focuses on the rates of …
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The Transformative Nature of Altered States of Consciousness in Youth Subculture
… substances. Through the lens of transpersonal psychology, social psychology and cultural psychology, the project explores the Rap and Hip-Hop culture as a rich ground of consciousness exploring psychoactive drug use. The project is a mixed method design – first exploring the culture …
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Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Natural Resource Co-Management
… underexplored within conservation social psychology, even as research expands in response to urgent social and environmental challenges. This research brought together theoretical and empirical insights from social and cultural psychology, behavioral economics, and institutional analysis …
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Testing the Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Ideology Using Incentivised Behavioural Tasks
… from political, social, moral, and cross-cultural psychology, less work has examined the essential nature of the two dimensions or asked why this particular two-dimensional structure organises political attitudes and values. In this thesis, I outline a dual evolutionary theoretical …
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Multiple Perspectives, One Decision: An Ethnographic Study of Life Support Withdrawal After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
… traumatic brain injury (TBI) underscores the cultural contexts, national, biomedical, and local, in which medical decisions are made. The contributions of this project are threefold: (1) contextualization of clinical neuropsychology, (2) recognition of the body in cultural psychology, and (3) …
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Establishing Cultural Relevance and Measurement Equivalence Using Emic and Etic Items (cross-Cultural, Philippines, Job Satisfaction)
A basic concern of cross-cultural research is to be able to document cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes of individuals across a variety of cultural settings. This type of research involves gathering data in different cultural settings. In an effort to maintain standardization, measures …
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The impact of culture on psychological assessment
… under criticism for maintaining a mainstream cultural status quo in clinical practice. In particular, indigenous peoples throughout the world have pointed out that clinical psychologists, in both research and practice, have not successfully been able to understand or deliver culturally …
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Being and doing anorexia nervosa: An exploration of diagnosis, identity-work, and performance of illness.
… of being diagnosed. Drawing on Brinkmann’s cultural psychology of diagnosis, I also address the ‘being’ and ‘doing’ of anorexia. In terms of ‘being’, I show how individuals learn a diagnostically-informed anorexic identity in treatment contexts. However, diagnostic understandings are not …
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Cross-Cultural Study of Procedural Fairness and Disputing Behavior (Collectivism, Justice)
Research in cross-cultural psychology and anthropology has suggested that cultural collectivism is a useful dimension for categorizing cultures and that different levels of collectivism may be related to different styles of dispute processing. With subjects from Hong Kong and the U.S., three …
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Relational structures among worldview, self-view, moral inclusiveness, and moral orientation : a holistic and complementary perspective
… and “self-view” to represent the influence of cultural individualism-collectivism and personality on moral development. It posits that worldview shapes self-view and moral inclusiveness [what is included in one’s moral consideration (Carter, 1980)] and then worldview, self-view, and moral …
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
In this dissertation, I examine cultural differences in perceptions of time looking at intertemporal decisions, social norms, policy preferences, and behaviors in the environmental domain. Looking closely at the environmental domain allows for a unique opportunity to examine whether or not cultural …
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