Objectives To explore feedback processes of Western-based health professional student training curricula conducted in an Arab clinical teaching setting. Methods This qualitative study employed document analysis of in-training evaluation reports (ITERs) used by Canadian nursing, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, paramedic, dental hygiene, and pharmacy technician programs established in Qatar. Six...

Power distance is one of the most prominent cultural dimensions underlying cultural differences in beliefs and values. However, how power distance is evident in the more tangible domain of behavior, such as nonverbal cues, has not been well-documented. In our study, we recruited Dutch (low power distance culture) and Chinese (high power distance culture) university students to play games agains...

This research investigated how accurately people infer what others are thinking after observing a brief sample of their behaviour and whether culture/similarity is a relevant factor. Target participants (14 British and 14 Mediterraneans) were cued to think about either positive or negative events they had experienced. Subsequently, perceiver participants (16 British and 16 Mediterraneans) watch...

Do differences in individualism and collectivism influence values, self-concept content, relational assumptions, and cognitive style? On the one hand, the cross-national literature provides an impressively consistent picture of the predicted systematic differences; on the other hand, the nature of the evidence is inconclusive. Cross-national evidence is insufficient to argue for a causal proces...

In 2002 and 2003, the large and quite frightening worldwide severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic first came, and then went, controlled through old-fashioned containment procedures— pathogen identification, case definition, quarantine, and hospital and community infection control—and through major public health efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO) and national programs in ...

People from Asian cultures are more influenced by context in their visual processing than people from Western cultures. In this study, we examined how these cultural differences in context processing affect how people interpret facial emotions. We found that younger Koreans were more influenced than younger Americans by emotional background pictures when rating the emotion of a central face, es...

This research investigates explicitly how Information technology capability (ITC) can be tailored to achieve business sustainability via ambidextrous innovation in a turbulent environment. Moreover, the moderating factor of data-driven culture (DDC) is also being investigated. The model was built on theoretical foundations resource-based view (RBV), dynamic capabilities and existing IT literatu...