‘A voice from elsewhere’: acculturation, personality and migrants’ self-perceptions across languages and cultures

Allik Personality Dimensions across Cultures Personality Dimensions across Cultures

In order to generalize the dimensional structure of personality—relatively independent groups of covarying traits—across languages and cultures, a large number of cultures must be studied. Until recently only a few worldwide personality datasets have been available. The first large–scale studies indicate that the pattern of covariation between personality traits is universal and is relatively e...

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Causality and Agency Across Cultures and Languages

Why does wood float on water? What made Jim shout at me, and why had he to be so offending? Who is responsible for my son’s sickness? And why should incest be wrong? All these questions share one important feature: They ask for causal explanations. Causality is a core concept in our attempts to make sense of the physical world and of social interactions; and this makes causal cognition a topic ...

Emotion Inferences from Vocal Expression Correlate across Languages and Cultures

Transculturation and Multilingual Lives: Writing between Languages and Cultures

This paper looks at the issues of transculturation as explored in auto and semi-autobiographical accounts of linguistic and cultural transitions. The paper also addresses a number of questions about the structure of these texts, the authors’ linguistic competences, as well as questions about the theoretical and conceptual tool which may help us to discuss the issues the writers are reflecting o...