Economic game experiments have become a prominent method among social scientists developing and testing theories of cooperation. These games provide a valuable opportunity to generate measures of cooperation that can be compared from one place to the next, yet challenges remain in how to interpret crosscultural differences in these experiments and connect them to cooperation in naturally occurr...

Triangular norms, or t-norms for short, play an important role for the semantics of fuzzy logics. Although an enormous number of examples and a remarkable number of construction methods for this kind of operation has been established, a uniform approach is still outstanding. This paper is devoted to a specific algebraic-geometrical framework within which t-norms, up to isomorphism, can be descr...

The paper explores the cultural rights accommodation by the state which has left many unresolved problems. The cultural rights sometimes violate the basic individual rights of the members inside the community like women. The paper further explicates certain cultural norms and practices which violates the rights of women inside the community in the name of culture. Keywords—Culture, Patriarchy, ...

background: the south-southern zone of nigeria is one of the zones in the country that has reported consistent high prevalent rates of hiv/aids pandemic in the last decade. in spite of bio-medical reasons adduced for the spread of the pandemic, socio-cultural factors may be major issues in the access to both prevention and treatment services especially for women. hence, this study investigated ...

The cultural defense has been the subject of a great deal of recent scholarship. Much of this analysis has concerned the consequences of the cultural defense, both for defendants and victims. Scholars differ on what these unintended consequences may be, however, and identify effects ranging from encouraging American ideals to spreading racism, to legitimizing violence against women. Although se...

This research provides novel insights into the evolutionary basis of cultural norm development and maintenance. We yield evidence for a unique culture-gene coevolutionary model between ecological threat, allelic frequency of the serotonin transporter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR), cultural tightness-looseness-the strength of norms and tolerance for deviance from norms-and moral justifiability. As hyp...

Research on culture and negotiation is critical for expanding theories of negotiation beyond Western cultures and for helping people to manage their interdependence in a world of increasing global threats and opportunities. Despite progress of understanding cultural influences on negotiation, research is limited in that it portrays a static and decontextualized view of culture and ignores cultu...

writing projects are socially-situated identities. the rhetorically-loaded aspects of writing, like metadiscourse marking, are more prone to carry such identities. through analyzing metadiscourse strategies employment in persian and english (as the lingua franca of academic discourse community) research articles, this study makes an attempt to find out whether persian native writers take on the...