Two Peas in a Pod? Understanding Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Anxiety Disorders

2019 ◽  
pp. 59-75
Author(s):  
Anushka Patel ◽  
Devon Hinton
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Similarities And Differences

scholarly journals Examination of Heterogeneous Societies

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fumiko Kano Glückstad ◽  
Mikkel N. Schmidt ◽  
Morten Mørup
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Relational Model ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
World Value Survey ◽  
Applied Model ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Cultural Data

The recent development of data analytic tools rooted around the Multi-Group Latent Class Analysis (MGLCA) has enabled the examination of heterogeneous datasets in a cross-cultural context. Although the MGLCA is considered as an established and popular cross-cultural data analysis approach, the infinite relational model (IRM) is a new and disruptive type of unsupervised clustering approach that has been developed recently by cognitive psychologists and computer scientists. In this article, an extended version of the IRM coined the multinominal IRM—or mIRM in short—is applied to a cross-cultural analysis of survey data available from the World Value Survey organization. Specifically, the present work analyzes response patterns of the Portrait Value Questionnaire (PVQ) representing Schwartz’s 10 basic values of Japanese and Swedes. The applied model exposes heterogeneous structures of the two societies consisting of fine-grained response patterns expressed by the respective subpopulations and extracts latent typological structures contrasting and highlighting similarities and differences between these two societies. In the final section, we discuss similarities and differences identified between the MGLCA and the mIRM approaches, which indicate potential applications and contributions of the mIRM and the general IRM framework for future cross-cultural data analyses.

scholarly journals Contradictions in Counter-Intuitive Beliefs and Naïve Dialecticism

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Samson
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cognitive Anthropology ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Role Of Religion

AbstractIn an article aimed at complementing Boyer and Sperber's (relatively structural) views of counter-intuitive concepts and their robustness in the religious domain, Franks (2003) has recently drawn attention to the fact that the tolerance of such conflict or contradiction appears to be less domain-specific in some cultures, such as those found in East Asia. This paper follows up on this important point by highlighting the similarities and differences of the tolerance for contradictions evident in East Asian 'naïve dialecticism' and nonnatural religious representations. It is argued that, despite their dissimilarity with respect to the content represented, both types of tolerances may be structurally similar. Both could also be anchored in intuition, albeit in qualitatively different ways. Given the general tolerance of psychological contradiction among persons of East Asian cultures and the potential role of religion, the question whether there is a place for the study of 'tolerance of contradiction' in cross-cultural psychology and cognitive anthropology is raised.

A Comparison of Symptoms of Behavioral Disturbances in Yoruba and African American Individuals With Dementia

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (S1) ◽  
pp. 403-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh C. Hendrie ◽  
Sujuan Gao ◽  
Olusegun Baiyewu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Genetic Variation ◽  
African American ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Environmental Exposures ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Behavioral Disturbances ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Comparative cross-cultural studies represent a great opportunity for delineating risk factors for the dementias by providing a much wider diversity of both environmental exposures and genetic variation than studies within industrialized countries. Similarly, studies of the behavioral disturbances of dementia that allow for identification of similarities and differences may be useful both in understanding the etiology of these disorders and in determining the best approach to management. So far, few such comparative studies exist.

scholarly journals Development of Psychology in Sri Lanka in comparison to Germany: Origin, Development, and Limitations

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asanka Bulathwatta
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
European Region ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Proper Place ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Cultural Framework ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Cross

Development process of any other field is not a quick one. It may come across steps throughout the history. When we compare the European region with the Asian region the situational processes they came across have similarities and differences. Germany is the birthplace of many psychological schools in which Sri Lanka still have some shadow of those schools and keep continuing some parts of psychology adapted from this society. Nevertheless, there are some trends of having own psychological practices affirming the cross-cultural framework. Sri Lankan universities are now trying to give a proper place for Psychology but still the tendency is not adequate compared to the placement given into other disciplines.

scholarly journals Comparative Move Analysis of Chinese and English Product Description on eBay

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
Tang Lei
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Online Shoppers ◽  
Detail Page ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Product Description ◽  
Chinese And English

Based on the move analysis theory of the ESP school, this research selects 10 product description pages of both Chinese and American e-stores on the international e-commerce platform eBay as the corpus of this paper. Quantitative analysis is used to compare the distinctive move structures of the product description in Chinese and American e-stores in order to find out the similarities and differences of moves employed between different countries and try to give explanations for the reasons behind these differences from the perspective of cross-cultural communication. The results of this paper can be regarded as a valuable resource for those online shoppers from both China and America so that they can have a better idea to edit the product detail page and it is hoped that this paper could also provide some inspiration on the ESP teaching.

GlobalMind

2011 ◽  
pp. 205-229
Author(s):  
Hyemin Chung ◽  
Henry Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Common Sense Knowledge

The need for more effective communication between people of different countries has increased as travel and communications bring more of the world’s people together. Communication is often difficult because of both language differences and cultural differences. Attempts to bridge these differences include many attempts to perform machine translation or provide language resources such as dictionaries or phrase books; however, many problems related to cultural and conceptual differences still remain. Automated mechanisms to analyze cultural similarities and differences might be used to improve traditional machine translators and as aids to cross-cultural communication. This article presents an approach to automatically compute cultural differences by comparing databases of common-sense knowledge in different languages and cultures. Global- Mind provides an interface for acquiring databases of common-sense knowledge from users who speak different languages. It implements inference modules to compute the cultural similarities and differences between these databases. In this article, the design of the GlobalMind databases, the implementation of its inference modules, as well as an evaluation of GlobalMind are described.

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