imported instructional english textbooks in iran and the learners’ attitudes towards english. further, the instructors’ awareness of these ideologies was examined through a questionnaire. to find the ideological values, a content analysis of conversations, texts, and  pictorial prompts in spectrum and true to life english textbook series was conducted and the extant ideologies were categorized ...

This paper investigates the semiotic affordances of visual and linguistic modes employed by Anglophone news brands to create on controversial Italian politician, Matteo Salvini. Ground...

Studies on the content of gender stereotypes have been conducted primarily in United States, while research other, particularly non-Western, countries is scarce. In this research, we assessed and compared self-characterizations Germany—a Western European country—and Nigeria—a West African country. We asked 403 Germans Nigerians to rate three target groups (either men general, women or themselve...

This article describes the ways in which group identifications and stereotypes can inform our understanding of cancer prevention and treatment as well as more general social processes surrounding the experience of cancer. From a perspective grounded in social identity theory, we describe the ways in which understanding primary identities (i.e., those associated with large social collectives suc...

Ethical guidelines require school psychologists to ensure that their assessment practices are nondiscriminatory, but typical discussions on this topic neglect the possible discriminatory effects of cultural stereotypes on assessment results. Recent research on stereotype threat shows that students' knowledge of stereotype-based negative expectations about their test performance can depress thei...

Interviews were conducted with 24 older couples in the USA and Japan. Spouses participated in a causal conversation during which they discussed their marital history. The dialogue between the spouses was examined in relation to five forms of communication: prompting, questioning, echoing, contradicting, and teasing. Results from this analysis challenge some of the stereotypes concerning Japanes...

Non-Whites’ stereotypes of White women were examined, comparing three perspectives: (1) White women are perceived similarly to ethnically “generic” stereotypes of women; (2) stereotypes are opposite of stereotypes of participants’ own ethnic group; and (3) stereotypes are derived from media images of White women. In Study 1, participants listed stereotypes of White women in an open-ended fashio...

Objectives and Contributions This chapter informs one aspect of what makes societies successful: social inclusion. My focus is social recognition and cultural citizenship – who fits in, who belongs, who is “us” and who is “them.” Societies that are inclusive are societies that make room for the social recognition of a variety of groups. They are societies that sustain competing definitions of a...

Young adults in Canada (N = 161) and South Korea (N = 165) rated either themselves or typical others at target ages 25, 45, and 65 years. In both countries, poorer memory was anticipated with each increase in age on all 3 memory belief factors: capacity, change, and locus. Both groups demonstrated a self-protective bias about age-related decline, with Koreans showing a greater effect. These fin...