There is recent evidence that perceptual processes are influenced by culture. Westerners tend to engage in context-independent and analytic perceptual processes by focusing on a salient object independently of its context, whereas Asians tend to engage in context-dependent and holistic perceptual processes by attending to the relationship between the object and the context in which the object i...

English teachers, especially those who teach summary writing to students with relatively lower proficiency in face difficulty teaching and while assessing their students’ performances. In the classroom context, an analytic rubric is pedagogically more helpful than a holistic because teacher can confirm strengths weaknesses of performance receive constructive feedback (Yamanishi et al....

nanoparticles classified in 4 overall groups containing: metallic nanoparticles, ceramic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and semiconductor nanoparticles. these nanoparticles are used in some biomedical applications such as carrying medicine and photographing agents. with attention to different criteria which are both qualitative and quantitative, selecting the most suitable nanoparticles...

background and aims. different factors affect children’s behavior during dental treatment, including psychological and behavioral characteristics. the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation of self-concept on child’s anxiety and behavior during dental treatment in 4 to 6-year-old children. materials and methods. a total of 235 preschoolers aged 4 to 6 years were included in this desc...

Product evaluation research has a long tradition of examining how consumers evaluate product from the itself in an attempt to understand why certain products are better perceived or worse perceived. Usually recall memory high their minds when they make buying decisions. Better fitting perceptions would be more favorable than poor ones. Our findings indicate that culture is important reason infl...

Many cross cultural studies have mentioned two distinct forms of thinking, holistic and analytic thought, and argued that one of the crucial differences between them is their attentional focus on focal object and its context. Furthermore, in face recognition studies, it has been replicated that face recognition is a configural process and is fostered by prior global processing orientation. The ...