In the thirteenth century, Italian artists published a series of stories called novellas. It was extension this that later gave rise to tradition telling through prose. Culture refers spheres human activity and symbolic systems give special characteristics significance such activities. Cultures are divided into two types. One can be classified as culture based on internal/domestic life other so...

Contextualized Extraversion and Its Change in Cross-cultural Adjustment ByMengqiao LiuAugust 2014Advisor: Dr. Jason L. HuangMajor: Psychology (Industrial-Organizational)Degree: Master of Arts Bridging recent developments in personality changes and contextualizedpersonality, the current research focuses on changes in contextualized personality andtheir impact on cross...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....