scholarly journals Experimental methods to study cultural differences in linguistics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangelia Adamou
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Research ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Portable Equipment ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Research Protocols ◽  
European University ◽  
Design Experiments

A relatively recent development in linguistics is the use of experimental methods in different cultural settings. It takes place within a larger trend in psychology following the observation that, up until today, research predominantly relies on North American and Northern European university students. When confronted to slightly more varied samples, the robustness of many theoretical generalizations no longer holds. Then why do we fail to see a significant rise in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic experimental research? A major hurdle comes from the fact that experimental research protocols are developed for a lab setting. This means that even when recent technological progress allows us to bring high-quality portable equipment to the field or conduct studies on the Internet, researchers still face challenges to design experiments that can work for diverse populations. This chapter offers an overview of studies that successfully overcome these hurdles and discusses future avenues for experimental research in diverse linguistic and cultural settings.

scholarly journals PENGGUNAAN METODE EKSPERIMEN PADA PEMBELAJARAN MATERI SIFAT BAHAN DAN KEGUNAANNYA TERHADAP HASIL DAN RESPON BELAJAR SISWA KELAS IV MIN TUNGKOB ACEH BESAR

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wati Oviana ◽  
Maulidar Maulidar
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Experimental Method ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Material Characteristics

The research on the use of experimental methods in learning characteristics of material and its usefulness toward students’ achievements and learning responses of Level 4 primary school students of MIN Tungkob Aceh Besar aims to determine students’ learning outcomes and responses toward the use of the method. This study uses experimental research. The data collection techniques were using test and distributing questionnaire to the students. The samples in this experimental study were students of class IV3 totaling 34 people as the experimental class and the class IV4 totaling 31 people as the control class. The data, which is the students’ learning outcomes collected from pretest and posttest, were analyzed using t-test formula. The data from the students’ questionnaire responses were analyzed using percentage formula.The result was that the students’ learning outcomes from the experimental class and the control class showed significant differences. Students’ responses toward the use of experimental methods in learning material characteristics and its usefulness were also very positive, where the students are very excited and interested in learning to use the experimental method in the study of material characteristics and its usefulness.

Experimental Research on Filtration Performance of Different Filter Medias on Fine Particle Collection

2013 ◽  
Vol 864-867 ◽  
pp. 737-742
Author(s):  
Yan Zheng ◽  
Ning Mao ◽  
Jing Xian Liu ◽  
De Qiang Chang ◽  
Xi Sun
Keyword(s):  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Fine Particle ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Bag Filter ◽  
Particle Collection ◽  
The Core ◽  
Filtration Performance ◽  
Dust Catcher ◽  
Core Part

Bag filter is one of the most effective methods of dust catcher, and the filter medias is the core part of bag filters. In this paper, we studied the filtration performance of several common filter medias comparatively through experimental methods, and the results can provide certain basis for the dust removal performance improvement of filter medias.

Contributions to the History of Psychology: XCIX. Experimental Study of Infrahuman Primate Sexual Behaviors: James Harlan Elder

1994 ◽  
Vol 74 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1383-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Testing Conditions ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Prior to the 1930s, designs of research into sexual behavior of infrahuman primates were not comparable; conclusions about physiological and nonphysiological factors in receptivity and mating were confounded by species studied, living and testing conditions, and precaptivity history. Clearly there was need for comprehensive and controlled studies of infrahuman primate sexual behavior. In response to the controversy about biological bases of receptivity and mating, James Harlan Elder, in collaboration with Robert M. Yerkes, designed the first truly comprehensive study of factors influencing sexual behavior of chimpanzees. At that time, other persons interested in this problem were employing experimental methods, but Elder's and Yerkes' program most directly addressed the problems confounding prior study and their work served as a model of experimental research into factors affecting receptivity and mating of infrahuman primates.

Standards for Experimental Research: Encouraging a Better Understanding of Experimental Methods

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana C. Mutz ◽  
Robin Pemantle
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Response Rates ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Reporting Guidelines ◽  
The Third ◽  
Leading Role

AbstractIn this essay, we closely examine three aspects of the Reporting Guidelines for this journal, as described by Gerber et al. (2014, Journal of Experimental Political Science 1(1): 81–98) in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Experimental Political Science. These include manipulation checks and when the reporting of response rates is appropriate. The third, most critical, issue concerns the committee's recommendations for detecting errors in randomization. This is an area where there is evidence of widespread confusion about experimental methods throughout our major journals. Given that a goal of the Journal of Experimental Political Science is promoting best practices and a better understanding of experimental methods across the discipline, we recommend changes to the Standards that will allow the journal to play a leading role in correcting these misunderstandings.

Cross-cultural Psychiatry, Liaison Psychiatry and other Major Challenges for Modern Psychiatrists

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
S. Ferrari ◽  
V. Barbanti Silva ◽  
M. Forghieri ◽  
M. Rigatelli
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Psychiatry ◽  
Liaison Psychiatry ◽  
Medically Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbances ◽  
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry ◽  
Systemic Nature ◽  
Contemporary Medicine

Beyond the awareness that psychiatry and contemporary medicine have undergone a dramatic change in recent years, walking the first steps as recently-qualified consultants in psychiatry is a major challenge. As a consequence of changes in society, technological progress and restricted funding availability, modern psychiatrists have to face problems that are new, and difficult to be faced, but also representing an opportunity to grow and contribute massively to medicine.This is particularly true in two specific fields, cross-cultural psychiatry and consultation-liaison psychiatry. The former is defined as psychiatry of disorders influenced by the cultural background; the latter is defined as the care of psychiatric disturbances in the medically ill. Though generic, these definitions highlight what is challenging in these branches of psychiatry: the disposition towards an inter-disciplinary approach to human illnesses. Both deepen their roots in the bio-psycho-social paradigm of George Engel and were in fact frequently mentioned in Engel's writings as the future of psychiatry. Training and clinical experience in cross-cultural and consultation-liaison psychiatry are to be major components of the curriculum of psychiatric trainees.Therefore, the role of psychiatrists and psychiatrists-to-be in the contemporary scientific community and society must be a strong one: on the side of scientific knowledge, by marking the complex, systemic nature of physiopathology and therapy; on the side of epistemology, by marking the paradoxes of bio-medicine; on the side of organization of health care, by promoting the need for a person-oriented approach to illness; and finally on the side of culture, society and ethics.

Feeling Is Believing: Inspiration Encourages Belief in God

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 723-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton R. Critcher ◽  
Chan Jean Lee
Keyword(s):  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Transcendent Experience ◽  
Theistic Belief

Even without direct evidence of God’s existence, about half of the world’s population believes in God. Although previous research has found that people arrive at such beliefs intuitively instead of analytically, relatively little research has aimed to understand what experiences encourage or legitimate theistic belief systems. Using cross-cultural correlational and experimental methods, we investigated whether the experience of inspiration encourages a belief in God. Participants who dispositionally experience more inspiration, were randomly assigned to relive or have an inspirational experience, or reported such experiences to be more inspirational all showed stronger belief in God. These effects were specific to inspiration (instead of adjacent affective experiences) and a belief in God (instead of other empirically unverifiable claims). Being inspired by someone or something (but not inspired to do something) offers a spiritually transcendent experience that elevates belief in God, in part because it makes people feel connected to something beyond themselves.

scholarly journals From Cross-Cultural Economic Experiments to Experimental Indigenous Management Research – A Suggestion

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Horak
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Indigenous Management ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
Economic Decision Making

ABSTRACTThis study provides an overview, categorization, and integration of what has been achieved in the niche of cross-culture experimental economics (CCEE) so far, aiming to inspire indigenous management researchers to extend their methodological toolbox by including experimental methods. As a result of the review, I find that most of the early studies lack depth and contextualization as well as detailed explanation aboutwhyhuman behavior differs. Hence, a better understanding about the influence of culture on economic decision-making is rather limited if it cannot be explained in more detail. In contrast, deep contextualization is a principle in indigenous management research (IMR). Both have so far not benefited from each other in the study of how culture affects human behavior, as both currently develop in parallel. Following the call for high-quality IMR (Tsui, 2004), this paper argues that an experimental methodology can make a contribution to IMR in the future by drawing on the strengths of both IMR (i.e., contextualization) and CCEE (i.e., methodology).

Impact of Missionary Training on Intercultural Readiness

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-261
Author(s):  
Paul Sungro Lee
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Test Design ◽  
Cultural Performance ◽  
Missionary Training ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Proper Training ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Critical Components

Abstract Going as a missionary or sending a missionary without proper training is quite reckless, and one of the most critical components of missionary preparation is intercultural readiness. This research was conducted to study the means to enhance one’s intercultural readiness and to measure its four sub-domain components that are likely to enable such a meaningful preparation at pre-departure stage. A group of 45 missions trainees at the Evangelical Alliance for Preacher Training/Commission’s School of Mission in Seoul, Korea were split into two groups, and quasi-experimental research was made on these groups through pre-test and post-test design. The research carefully examined whether EAPTC’s Missionary Candidate Training program could be another option for training the missionary candidates for effective cross-cultural performance with greater longevity on their field experience.

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