Culture influences how people divide continuous sensory experience into events

Investigating how everyday people experience security

How to integrate social care services into primary health care? An experience from Iran

Background: Social issues have prominent effects on the peoples' physical and mental health and on the health risk factors. In Iran, many organizations provide social care services to their target population. This study aimed to explore the roles and functions of Primary Health Care (PHC) system in providing social care services in Iran.   Methods: This was a qualitative study, for whic...

The Two - Culture Divide

The slash in the title of Genetic Nature/Culture is a splice, an orthographic recognition that the anthropological orders of nature and culture are being recombined in novel ways in the age of genetics. If Lévi-Strauss saw the structures of kinship as reliably translating nature into culture, the authors in this volume regard the gene and genome as boundary objects fastening together a variety ...

How culture influences perspective taking: differences in correction, not integration

Individuals from East Asian (Chinese) backgrounds have been shown to exhibit greater sensitivity to a speaker's perspective than Western (U.S.) participants when resolving referentially ambiguous expressions. We show that this cultural difference does not reflect better integration of social information during language processing, but rather is the result of differential correction: in the earl...

Physical contact influences how much people pay at celebrity auctions.

Contagion is a form of magical thinking in which people believe that a person's immaterial qualities or essence can be transferred to an object through physical contact. Here we investigate how a belief in contagion influences the sale of celebrity memorabilia. Using data from three high-profile estate auctions, we find that people's expectations about the amount of physical contact between the...