Mobile telephony is currently the most popular and widespread communication technology on the planet greatly exceeding that of fixed broadband. The way people communicate is a manifestation of their culture, i.e. general beliefs and core values formed during childhood and reinforced throughout life. Currently, there is little systematic cross-cultural research to explicate the effects of indivi...

While social learning and communication are both widespread in non-human animals, social learning by communication is probably human specific. Humans can and do transmit generic knowledge to each other about animal and artefact kinds, conventional behaviours to be used in specific situations, arbitrary referential symbols, cognitively opaque skills, and know-how embedded in means-end actions. T...

This paper presents the results of a study investigating the influences of cultures on communication media choice within a multinational organization (MNO). A questionnaire was used to collect data from 121 respondents of a multinational organization across four countries; Australia, Korea, Thailand, and Malaysia. Cultural level difference was found to influence perception of media richness, ta...

With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students’ cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today’s foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities. Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modern language talents. This paper ...

This chapter explores intercultural communication in the health and social care setting. It is written from a psychological perspective and explores some of the variables that are central to the topic of intercultural communication. Little of the current health and social care literature in Britain has addressed the issue of intercultural communication. This chapter argues that understanding mi...

BACKGROUND Massive resources are expended every year on cross-cultural communication training for physicians. Such training is a focus of continuing medical education nationwide and is part of the curriculum of virtually every medical school in America. There is a pressing need for evidence regarding the effects on patients of cross-cultural communication training for physicians. There is a nee...