Archive forCross Cultural Research

Popular Music and Society - Cross-cultural "countries": covers, conjuncture, and the Whiff of Nashville in Musica Sertaneja

May 1, 2005 -- This article uses concepts from anthropological linguistics to examine a cover of "Achy Breaky Heart" within the genre of Brazilian commercial ...

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Journal of Advertising - AN ALTERNATE APPROACH TO ASSESSING CROSS-CULTURAL MEASUREMENT EQUIVALENCE IN ADVERTISING RESEARCH

April 1, 2005 -- ABSTRACT: This paper offers a new methodological framework to guide researchers attempting to quantitatively assess how a pluralistic audience perceives ...

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Sign Language Studies - A Crosslinguistic, Cross-cultural Analysis of Metaphors in Two Italian Sign Language (LIS) Registers

April 1, 2005 -- A KEY DEFINITIONAL FEATURE of metaphors is that they make it possible to talk about a particular topic with terms usually related to a very different subject. For example, if someone says, "Jerry's m

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Australian Journal of Anthropology, The - Coming too close, going too far: theoretical and cross-cultural approaches to incest and its prohibitions

April 1, 2005 -- Although interest in cultural explanations of topics like incest waned among Anglo anthropologists along with the abandonment of kinship theory in general, ...

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National Review - Movie actress Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of Will Smith, gave a speech to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations

March 28, 2005 -- Movie actress Jada Pinkett Smith, wife of Will Smith, gave a speech to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. Here is what she ...

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Family Process - Co-constructing a cross-cultural course: resisting and replicating colonizing practices

March 1, 2005 -- This article examines the cross-cultural complexities of teaching and learning processes at different levels in a family therapy training program delivered ...

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Sex Roles: A Journal of Research - Cross-cultural reactions to academic sexual harassment: effects of individualist vs. collectivist culture and gender of participants

February 1, 2005 -- Male and female university students from the United States, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Ecuador, Pakistan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Turkey read a standardized scenario in which a male prof

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Journal of Leisure Research - Evolution of Cross-Cultural Analysis in the Study of Leisure: Commentary on "Culture, Self-Construal, and Leisure Theory and Practice

January 1, 2005 -- In a 1997 review of the social psychology of leisure literature, Doug Kleiber and I concluded that there was no comprehensive social psychology of cultural ...

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Social Behavior and Personality - UNIVERSALITY OF RELATIONSHIP CHARACTERISTICS: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF ATTACHMENT AND LONELINESS IN CANADIAN AND VISITING CHINESE

January 1, 2005 -- This study investigated the universality of loneliness and attachment in family, romantic and social relationships by comparing Canadian home students ...

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College Student Journal - Studying abroad: the role of college students’ goals on the development of cross-cultural skills and global understanding

September 1, 2004 -- This study examined the broader impact that study abroad programs have on students' cross-cultural skills and global understanding and the role that ...

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