After observing someone s behavior, individuals often infer a corresponding attitude in the person even when the behavior is socially constrained. Convincing evidence for this phenomenon (called the correspondence bias) has been obtained in the perceiverinduced constraint paradigm, where participants ask a target person to read a pre-written attitudinal statement, and after observing the target...

Based in 14 focus groups, this exploratory study attempts to analyze the way women and men perceive talking about information and communication technology in their same sex friendship networks and the way it impact in information and communication technology (ICT) attitude and knowledge sharing. Our research findings reveal that friendship networks play an important role in ICT knowledge sharin...

Personal values are important determinants of consumer behavior. While previous research has identified values (i.e., openness to change and self-enhancement) which guide consumers’ mall shopping behavior, they have been set in a Western cultural context. By adopting a value–attitude–behavior (VAB) model, this study examines what and how personal values influence consumers’ mall shopping behavi...

The present study investigates the association of Chinese parents’ collectivistic tendency, attitudes towards filial piety (i.e., children respecting and caring for parents (RCP) and children protecting and upholding honor for parents (PUHP)), parenting behaviors (i.e., autonomy granting (AG) and psychological control (PC)) with young adolescents’ autonomous motivation. Participants were 321 Ch...

Attitude towards science has attracted lot of attentions from researchers in the past and is still widely researched. Consequently, a large number of tools are available for measuring attitude towards science covering different dimensions of attitude. The reported variation is usually attributed to uniqueness of socio-economic and cultural aspects of society. This argument provided basis for de...

We investigate an e-commerce stages of growth model in a cross-cultural business context for small Chinese firms in New Zealand. Research findings from 14 case studies show that the Chinese owners/managers of these small firms have a high power distance, and their attitude toward e-commerce technology directly influences their firms’ e-commerce growth process. It was found that the higher the s...

On the basis of the latest statistics, the author estimates the present share of firstand secondgeneration immigrants in Slovenia’s population. After examining the quantity and intensity of those public efforts in Slovenia that have been focused on unresolved problems of the immigrants’ social and cultural integration, she continues to question the equality of immigrant minorities in Slovenia, ...

Purpose of this paper In this paper, information security assessment is analysed in terms of cultural categories and virtue ethics, in order to explain the cultural origin of certain types of security vulnerabilities, as well as to enable a proactive attitude towards preventing such vulnerabilities. Design/methodology/approach Vulnerabilities in information security are compared to the concept ...

Background & Aims:  Aging is a vital phenomenon that happens to everyone. In different cultures, there are diverse beliefs and attitudes towards aging. This study aimed to determine the attitude of Fasa residents towards the elderly. Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 800 individuals between 13 and 60 years old by cluster sampling. The data collection ...

Comparing English and Norwegian pupils’ attitude towards mathematics, in this article I develop a deeper understanding of the factors that may shape and influence ‘pupil attitude towards mathematics’, and argue for it as a socio-cultural construct embedded in and shaped by students’ environment and context in which they learn mathematics. The theoretical framework leans on work by Zan and Di Ma...