Research on neural basis of inhibitory control has been extensively conducted in various parts of the world. It is often implicitly assumed that neural basis of inhibitory control is universally similar across cultures. Here, we investigated the extent to which culture modulated inhibitory-control brain activity at both cultural-group and cultural-value levels of analysis. During fMRI scanning,...

("Ethics, Clinical"[Mesh] OR "Bioethical Issues"[Mesh] OR "Ethics"[Mesh] OR "Culture"[Mesh] OR ethics[tiab] OR "value system"[All Fields] OR "Cultural Characteristics"[Mesh] OR "Cultural Diversity"[Mesh] OR "Cross-Cultural Comparison"[Mesh]) AND ("Bioterrorism"[Mesh] OR "Terrorism"[Mesh] OR "Disasters"[Mesh] OR disaster[tiab] OR bioterrorism[tiab] OR hurricane[tiab] OR tornado[tiab] OR flood[ti...

Mainstream Western ethics defines humans as rational beings. Ethics is a system of rules external to society and culture. Qualitative inquiry defines humans in holistic terms—as cultural beings, and cultures are value centered. The master norm for qualitative research, therefore, ought to be cultural continuity. Decisions for change are controlled by cultural groups themselves. Research ought t...

Conceptualizing copyright’s role in processes of cultural development requires a model of creativity that faces outward: that recognizes the inseparable relationship between authorship and use of cultural works. Such a model must acknowledge the multiple ways in which users and user-authors interact with cultural works, and must recognize that those interactions cannot be explained by telling a...

Purpose – Business Process Management (BPM) requires a holistic perspective that includes managing the culture of an organization to achieve objectives of efficient and effective business processes. Still, the specifics of a BPM-supportive organizational culture have not been examined so far. Thus, the purpose of our paper is to identify the characteristics of a cultural setting supportive of B...

This article examines the influence of socio-cultural background and product value on different outcomes of usability tests. A study was conducted in two different socio-cultural regions, Switzerland and East Germany, which differed in a number of aspects (e.g. economic power, price sensitivity and culture). Product value (high vs. low) was varied by manipulating the price of the product. Sixty...

Our cultural heritage derives from the development and diversifi cation of human cultures and abilities. Scientifi c investigation of cultural heritage has several important aims: (1) increasing our knowledge and understanding of the tangible heritage; (2) assembling information, including physical evidence, in order to add cultural value to the heritage, including the “intangible” values; and ...

This paper presents the results of a qualitative in-depth study to investigate if and how our previously proposed Cultural Viewpoint Metaphors (CVM) can support practitioners in assessing the quality of HCI design alternatives. The results of the study underline the epistemic value of CVM in cross-cultural system design processes. The metaphors have not only helped participants organize their t...