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Cross-Cultural Cognitive Studies

Carol R. Ember
- 01 Oct 1977 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 1, pp 33-56
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This article is published in Annual Review of Anthropology.The article was published on 1977-10-01. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive remediation therapy & Cognitive neuropsychology.

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American Jewish Ethnicity: Its Relationship to Some Selected Aspects of Consumer Behavior:

TL;DR: The ethnicity literature within marketing has infrequently considered relevant subcultural norms in the derivation of hypotheses, the strength of ethnic identification in the grouping of subjects, and the....
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Global Unconditional Convergence among Larger Economies after 1998

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the world-wide switch from the conditional to unconditional convergence pattern that we recently observe is accounted for by the point that by the late 1990s all the major developing countries and economies of the world began to satisfy (more or less) the major conditions of the conditional convergence.
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Emics, Etics, and Social Objectivity

TL;DR: The authors examines the role of emics in avoiding interpreter imposition of etic categories in ethnographic systematization, arguing that ethnographic objectivity must acknowledge some degree of imposition but that this does not render emic analysis pointless.
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A cultural difference in visual memory: on le voit, on ne le voit plus

TL;DR: This article examined the visual memory skills of Aboriginal and white Australian children using Drinkwater's version of Kim's game with desert Aboriginal and rural white children and found that Aboriginal children remembered significantly more objects overall than white children when the task was first administered.
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Ethnic Variation in Hedonic Consumption

TL;DR: This paper explored variation in hedonic consumption patterns among members of religion- and nationality-based ethnic groups and found that significant ethnic differences were present in projective behavior, imagery, behavioral motives, and preferred leisure activities.
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Pan-Cultural Elements in Facial Displays of Emotion

TL;DR: Observers in both literate and preliterate cultures chose the predicted emotion for photographs of the face, although agreement was higher in the literate samples, suggesting that the pan-cultural element in facial displays of emotion is the association between facial muscular movements and discrete primary emotions.
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Temne and Eskimo perceptual skills.

TL;DR: Aptitudes perceptives perceptives des Temne and des Esquimaux as discussed by the authors have been investigated in two societes, the Temne du Sierra Leone and the Esquims de la Terre de Baffin, for verifier l'hypothese selon laquelle les aptitudes perceptive seraient plus developpees chez les Esquimaaux qui vivent de la chasse que chez Les Temne, who sont cultivateurs.
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Relation of Child Training to Subsistence Economy

TL;DR: For instance, this article showed that the typical personality of a person can be viewed as an existing set of conditions which may exert an influence on later child training practices, either directly or indirectly through influence on typical personality.