Recent years have seen a growing interest in neuropsychological assessment throughout the world. In countries with no history of neuropsychological research, clinicians often use existing tests developed in other countries with a long tradition in neuropsychological research and practice. While verbal tests were viewed as vulnerable to cultural and/or language bias, visuoperceptual tasks were o...

In northern Nigeria, widows’ identities and status are defined within the mores, norms, traditional religions, and legal institutions of the cultures of the community. The ethnic cultural laws are oppressive and retrogressive. The nexus of these cultural pressures trigger discriminatory practices that deny school attending widows’ access, and completion of primary and secondary levels of educat...

Adviser: Helen Raikes Past research indicates that the cultural constructs of race and ethnicity are socialized and that that socialization process begins in early childhood. This qualitative case study sought to learn more about the parental role in fostering children's cultural awareness as well as parents' collaboration experiences with childcare providers with regard to the fostering proces...

Overview This 26-month investigation examines the relationship between inter-ethnic interactions, perceptions, and the cultural content of ethnic groups. Evidence from ethnography, psychological experiments, and evolutionary models supports the intuition that inter-ethnic interactions among individuals play an important role in the changing “cultural content” of an ethnic group, i.e., the norms...

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In two studies drawing from social identity theory and the creative-cognition approach, we found that higher levels of identity integration—perceived compatibility between two social identities—predict higher levels of creative performance in tasks that draw on both identity-relevant knowledge domains. Study 1 showed that Asian Americans with higher identity integration were more creative in de...