The reminiscence bump refers to the disproportionate number of individuals' autobiographical memories that date from young adulthood. A similar bump is found in cultural life scripts: When people are asked to nominate and date major transitional events in a typical life course in their culture, a disproportionate number of the events cited are likewise expected to occur in young adulthood. Acro...

This article presents a conceptual analysis of collaboration scripts used in face-to-face and computer-mediated collaborative learning. Collaboration scripts are scaffolds that aim to improve collaboration through structuring the interactive processes between two or more learning partners. Collaboration scripts consist of at least five components: (a) learning objectives, (b) type of activities...

This study compared the reports of satanic, sexual, and physical abuse of persons instructed to role-play either dissociative identity disorder (DID) (n = 33), major depression (n = 33), or a college student who experienced minor adjustment problems ("normal") (n = 33) across a number of trials that included role-played hypnosis. As hypothesized, more of the participants who were asked to role-...

Abstract Despite educational and employment advancements, research indicates that traditional sexual scripts are nevertheless often considered adhered to as related gendered conditioning. This manuscript reviews the script theory, provides application illustrations of theories discusses implications such conditioning, particularly for women.

Cultural life scripts refer to the shared expectations as order and timing of events in a prototypical course within given culture or subculture. Immigration is significant transition that often implies change cultural context, which may people's views about normative life. However, research on context immigration has been limited. We addressed this gap by examining 33 young second-generation T...

The aim of the present article is to offer some reflections on possibilities developing intercultural competence in context glottodidactics by employing elements constituting language football and sport. It demonstrated that such as football-related lexems, anthroponyms Italian players, fascism, cultural scripts, many others can be used shape students’ awareness regards culture, society, lifest...

Two studies explored how domestic violence may be implicitly or explicitly sanctioned and reinforced in cultures where honor is a salient organizing theme. Three general predictions were supported: (a) female infidelity damages a man's reputation, particularly in honor cultures; (b) this reputation can be partially restored through the use of violence; and (c) women in honor cultures are expect...

Background: Attention to several clinical issues simultaneously and timeliness of proper treatment is of prime importance in Emergency Medicine. Simulation Based Training is a growing trend for clinical resident training which has been proposed for enhancing of residents multi-tasking abilities. The Simulation Module for Assessment of Resident’s Targeted Event Response is a methodology which de...