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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"cultural comparisons"”.
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Inter-Cultural Comparisons of Measures of Learning Aptitude in Sighted and Blind Children
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The magical realism of metaphor: cross-cultural comparisons in use of metaphor in cognition
… the hypothesis that due to linguistic and cultural factors, metaphor usage – or thinking in terms of what something is like – differs across cultures. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision task supported the hypothesis that perception of what something is like tends to be faster and more …
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A Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Factors Related to Help-Seeking Attitudes for Psychological Disorder
It has been reported that Asian people have negative views of mental illness, including beliefs that it is incurable and shameful. Asian people also tend to attribute causes of mental disorders to factors less susceptible to personal influence such as supernatural factors, and are likely to have an …
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Domestic strifes in Chinese Yuan 'tsa-chu' and English domestic drama
"In view of many prejudiced cross-cultural comparisons of drama in the past, this dissertation proposes to discard Western theories of tragedy and comedy, and base the comparative study on the similar themes and social function of drama in the compared traditions. It investigates ""domestic drama"" …
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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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Pleasure as a source of meaning or a motivator for meaning search: The Cross-cultural investigation
… meaning may vary across cultures, focusing on comparisons between Koreans and Euro-Canadians. Guided by the idea that culture shapes people’s perceptions on pleasure, I proposed that the presence of pleasure would serve as a source of meaning in life among Euro-Canadians but as a motivator for …
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Compliance-Gaining in Multicultural Groups: an Exploratory Study
… is an exploratory study of how members of multicultural groups engage in compliance-gaining messages. While studies have focused on cross-cultural comparisons to draw conclusions about cultural patterns in small groups, these conclusions are necessarily speculative because few studies have …
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From education to employment: Investigating postgraduate employment outcomes of international students in the ICT sector of New Zealand
… skills, soft skills, English proficiency, and cultural adaptability for employment post-study. The gap between perceived and actual employability outcomes underscored the critical role of industry-educator collaboration in relation to international postgraduate academic preparation for industry …
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Divergent Responses to the Human Predicament: A Case Study in New Comparativism
… course for future academically beneficial cross-cultural comparisons, this project presents a case study that compares two religious traditions' doctrinal responses to a conceptually analogous ontological presupposition. Specifically, it analyzes comparatively the Reformed Christian doctrine of …
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Iron age decorative metalwork in southern Africa: an archival study
… by ethnic groups thereby allowing cross cultural comparisons. Subsequently, the study explored the typology of objects utilized further back in the time of the Early Iron Age using archaeological evidence. It demonstrated that most of the objects used in the Iron Age were similar to those …
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The effects of managers' cultural distance, ethnocentrism, and quality-of-life (QOL) orientation on program standardization
… of program standardization decisions: managers’ cultural distance, ethnocentrism, and quality-of-life (QOL) orientation. This dissertation empirically examines the effects of these managerial attitude variables on program standardization. It is hypothesized that managers’ ethnocentrism is …
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A Study of Dissemination Mechanisms and Governance Management of Health-related Misinformation on Social Media in China
… Whilst the study is limited to a specific cultural context, it contributes to digital health communication research, laying the foundation for future cross-cultural comparisons and long-term evaluation of governance strategies.
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The Regulation of Medically Assisted Procreation in Europe and Related Nations and the Influence of National Identity, Social Cultural, and Demographic Differences
… the influence of national identity, social cultural and demographic differences on these regulations. Detailed data were gathered from ministries of health, offices of prime ministers, embassy staff, and others on regulations for each nation. These data were used to categorize the nations in …
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Culture Teaching and Learning in an Advanced Placement Chinese Course
… paid to how Chinese language learners approach cultural issues and develop cultural awareness in the language teaching context of American secondary education. In order to address the research gap, the present study aims to explore how the teaching and learning of culture develop in an Advanced …
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Understanding father: adult sons look back
… larger samples, multiple sources of evidence and cultural comparisons. This will also refine and focus an initial developmental model of father-son relations and longitudinal male psychological development which is proposed here.
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Individual differences in visual memory, imagery style and media experience and their effect on the visual qualities of dreams
… and allowed cross-sectional (e.g. age) or cross-cultural comparisons. Others were more laboratory-based and explored data concerning visual memory and imagery performance with diverse dependent measures (e.g. response time data). In addition these studies involved the development of a novel …
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Emerging Dynamics in Audiences’ Consumption of Trans-Media Products: The Cases of Mad Men and Game Of Thrones as a Comparative Study Between Italy and New Zealand
… there is still a dearth of international, cross-cultural comparisons. In selecting and comparing two nations that are outside the dominant media market of production (the US) but where these shows have nonetheless had considerable impact, my study aims to explore the specificities of audiences’ …
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Cultural Perspectives on Photography Education: An Inquiry into Pedagogy and Student Experiences in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and University of Wales Trinity Saint David
… examines photography education through a cross-cultural lens, centring on Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA) as a primary case study, with comparative reference to the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) in the UK. Drawing on the author’s experiences in China and the UK, it …
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Kinetic Family Drawings of Chinese-American Children
… is a country enriched with a diversity of cultural backgrounds. Information on Chinese-American children and their families is limited even though the Chinese are one of the main minority groups in America and increasingly more Chinese are migrating here. This study sought to use the …
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