A field study was conducted to identify cultural factors--values, beliefs, and related characteristics--associated with health-risk behavior among adult members of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. The Cultural Values Survey (CVS), an instrument for measuring cultural values and related characteristics, was developed and pilot tested in the study population. This instrument, along with the Health...

We re-run our analysis on human-rights democracy as a function of the Human Development Index (HDI) and cultural values with self-expressive values indicator replacing the emancipative values indicator (for details on emancipative values and self-expressive values indicator see supplementary material S12). Our intention was to test, whether the finding that HDI has a stronger e↵ect on human-rig...

Over the past decades many countries have experienced rapid changes in their economies, their democratic institutions and the values of their citizens. Comprehensive data measuring these changes across very different countries has recently become openly available. Between country similarities suggest common underlying dynamics in how countries develop in terms of economy, democracy and cultural...

This aim of this paper is to introduce this special theme issue and to reposition the debate about cultural industries in a broader perspective and in so doing to open up new research possibilities. The paper argues against the analysis of cultural industries in a separate realm (either the industrial, economic or cultural) and in favour of a hybrid notion that interweaves industry and culture....

Most real estate studies have been concerned with exploring the macroeconomic determinants of housing prices. Little attention has been paid to the context in which property markets function. This study, however, goes beyond macroeconomic factors and explores how country specifi c factors such as cultural values infl uence residential property markets. We have tested and verifi ed the assumptio...

We examined infant sleeping arrangements and cultural values of Japanese mothers in 2008 and 2009. Based on Greenfield's theory of social change and human development, we predicted that social change in Japan over the last decades (higher economic and education level, urbanization, complex technology, more women in the work force) would lead to a decline in mother-infant co-sleeping, compared w...

Texts posted on the web by users from diverse cultures provide a nearly endless source of data that researchers can use to study human thoughts and language patterns. However, unless care is taken to avoid it, models may be developed in one cultural setting and deployed in another, leading to unforeseen consequences. We explore the effects of using models built from a corpus of texts from multi...

Mexican Americans are one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, yet we have limited knowledge regarding changes (i.e., developmental trajectories) in cultural orientation based upon their exposure to the Mexican American and mainstream cultures. We examined the parallel trajectories of Mexican American and mainstream cultural values in a sample of 749 Mexican Am...

Capital punishment by lethal injection has been discussed in the literature, but there has been no consideration of the sociocultural foundations of the ethical issues related to medical aspects of capital punishment. Lethal injection represents the inappropriate medicalization of a complex social issue whereby medical skills and procedures are used in ways that contradict established medical p...