BACKGROUND Since nearly half of new HIV infections worldwide occur among young people aged 15-24 years, changing sexual behaviour in this group will be crucial in tackling the pandemic. Qualitative research is starting to reveal how social and cultural forces shape young people's sexual behaviour and can help explain why information campaigns and condom distribution programmes alone are often n...

This paper discusses the development of a believable agent-based educational application designed to develop inter-cultural empathy for 13-14 year old students. It considers relevant work in cultural taxonomy and adaptation to other cultures as well as work showing that users are sensitive to the perceived culture of believable interactive characters. It discusses how an existing affective agen...

Purpose – The main aim of this study is to examine the relationships between Cultural Orientation (CO) variables that influence consumption foreign made products among Malaysian consumers. orientation consist Ethnocentrism (Etn), Xenocentrism (Xen), and Cosmopolitanism (Cos). Design/methodology A quantitative survey was administered in which questionnaire has been adopted as instrument for stud...

Digital storm which has taken the world changed way organisations function. It brought in a huge change sell and transact. In case of India major e-payment started after demonetization (change national currency) happened. is when people were forced to transact through cashless methods shortage cash. First time small merchants did business methods. Though, still avoid digital prefer cash transac...

The deficiency of our present education in moulding the future generation to develop a social and natural out look is discussed in this paper. Also the author lighlights here the significance Adhyatma forms of teaching and cultural evolution takes place to that effect.

Launched in 2010, the Google Books Ngram Viewer offers a novel means of tracing cultural change over time. This digital tool offers exciting possibilities for cultural psychology by rendering questions about variation across historical time more quantitative. Psychologists have begun to use the viewer to bolster theories about a historical shift in the United States from a more collectivist to ...