The Locarno Film Festival (LFF), founded in 1946 by film industry professionals and local tourism promoters, is reputed as an international hub for emerging cinema. Built apart from, or opposition to, traditional commercial cinema, the Swiss event gave particular attention to Eastern European movies, point that LFF has frequently been presented place where ‘Westerners discovered talents of Euro...

Prior research on cross-cultural negotiation has emphasized the cognitive and behavioral elements. This study takes a different perspective presents motivation–emotion model of negotiation. We propose that cultural differences in chronic regulatory focus will lead to biases emotion recognition, which turn affect behaviors. People are inclined perceive behave ways enhance fit. Westerners East As...

Introduction: In Western population, a threshold of 5 drinks per day may exist for alcohol to increase pancreatitis risk. Given ethnic differences in metabolism, we examined the associations between smoking, alcohol, and Indians. Methods: A case control study was conducted surgery department hospital western India. Information on drinking collected by in-person interview. Baseline characteristi...

This paper analyzes O.A Bushnell’s the Return of Lono from postcolonial perspective, focusing on ambivalence colonial discourse and resulting contradiction which ultimately undermine Western claim superiority. novel dramatizes arrival Captain Cook’s expedition Hawai’ian isles first-person perspective Jonathan Forrest as he reminiscences their prior expedition. The Westerners’ view an idealized ...

Many of the cognitive psychologists have assumed that human mind is universal, and have inferred that, even if they observe cultural differences, they are the consequences of different cultural stimuli. However, some social psychologists have demonstrated cultural differences in cognition (e.g., Nisbett, Peng, Choi, & Norenzayan, 2001). They abandon the universality view and proposed an interac...

Cognitive dissonance and effects of self-affirmation on dissonance arousal were examined cross-culturally. In Studies 1 and 2, European Canadians justified their choices more when they made them for themselves, whereas Asian Canadians (Study 1) or Japanese (Study 2) justified their choices more when they made them for a friend. In Study 3, an interdependent self-affirmation reduced dissonance f...

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI 2011, May 7–12, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ACM 978-1-4503-0268-5/11/05. Abstract Cultural influences on our behavior are partly reflected in neuroanatomical changes in our brains, altering our abilities to perceive and interpret information. This paper points out possible consequences of such ”cultural abilities” for user interface design, and out...