In this paper, we address the task of cross-cultural deception detection. Using crowdsourcing, we collect three deception datasets, two in English (one originating from United States and one from India), and one in Spanish obtained from speakers from Mexico. We run comparative experiments to evaluate the accuracies of deception classifiers built for each culture, and also to analyze classificat...

Does there exist only one, universally valid, research ethic? Are informed consent and ethical committees the best means to ensure the moral correctness of research? Again, what consequences ensue from the introduction of these instruments for the freedom of research and the quality of its results? This article addresses these issues by first recounting an ethnography conducted by its author in...

Contextualizing Science: From Science Studies to Cultural Studies Author(s): Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis Source: PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1994, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers (1994), pp. 402-412 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/s...

To better understand this cultural phenomenon, Zenit interviewed Fr. Leopoldo Prieto, LC, a professor of philosophy in the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Fr Leopoldo’s newest book, recently published in Spain, is entitled “Man and Animal: New Boundaries of Anthropology” (El hombre y el animal: Nuevas fronteras de la antropología, BAC, Madrid 2008). Analyzing the results of var...

People are always important only to people. Such practices as “communication”, “cooperation” have developed since mankind created society and not new. The concept of “cultural diplomacy,” aimed at creating maintaining peace stability throughout the world through intercultural relations, forms basis a new science. While science considers research, mechanisms ways, proposed article examines numbe...

nowadays, adolescent girls live in such a more complex and challengeable world that considering their infinite desires and potential abilities as social, cultural, economical and geographical conditions change their needs and social inclinations become more diverse and dynamic. this study probes into the social, cultural, and educational needs of adolescent girls studying at junior high school ...

The area of cross-cultural management and organization studies has been dominated by Hofstede’s (1980a) seminal work on cultural values dimensions. Despite much recent criticism, and perhaps because of it, he remains the most cited author in this area. It is difficult to start any account in this field without reference to his work, and this is certainly the starting point here. This chapter fi...

CULTURAL SAMPLE The Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, or SCCS (Murdock and White 1969), is a cumulative and collaborative database of coded variables on maximally diverse and ethnographically best-described societies used by scholars in the social sciences. The champion of modern cross-cultural and statistical methods, George P. Murdock, in preparation for a standard sample, had classified the 1,...