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Hirshberg, Matthew S. "Cold war cognition and culture in America /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10745.

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Moss, Michael. "Rhetoric and Time: Cognition, Culture, and Interaction." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1347028413.

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Ferdinand, Vanessa Anne. "Inductive evolution : cognition, culture, and regularity in language." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11741.

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Cultural artifacts, such as language, survive and replicate by passing from mind to mind. Cultural evolution always proceeds by an inductive process, where behaviors are never directly copied, but reverse engineered by the cognitive mechanisms involved in learning and production. I will refer to this type of evolutionary change as inductive evolution and explain how this represents a broader class of evolutionary processes that can include both neutral and selective evolution. This thesis takes a mechanistic approach to understanding the forces of evolution underlying change in culture over ti
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Yasumoto, Saori. "Culture, Cognition, and Parenthood in Japanese and American Homes." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/52.

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Previous family researchers have found that parents who share different demographic backgrounds construct unique parenting styles and beliefs. Although such studies contribute to understanding how parenthood is socially constructed, the information about how parents internalize cultural information and everyday experiences to raise children is missing in the extant literature. To fully comprehend the social construction of parenthood, the linkage between the mind and the behavior of parents within specific social structures needed to be studied. I thus conducted conjoint interviews with 24 J
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Saldana, Carmen Catalina. "Simplifying linguistic complexity : culture and cognition in language evolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31395.

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Languages are culturally transmitted through a repeated cycle of learning and communicative interaction. These two aspects of cultural transmission impose (at least) three interacting pressures that can shape the evolution of linguistic structure: a pressure for learnability, a pressure for expressivity, and a pressure for coordination amongst users in a linguistic community. This thesis considers how these sometimes competing pressures impact linguistic complexity across cultural time. Using artificial language and iterated learning experimental paradigms, I investigate the conditions under w
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Janse, van Rensburg Gerard. "Culture, self, and cognition: adding Africa to the mix." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24903.

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Cross-cultural differences in cognition have been well established across the world, and differences in Individualism (IND) and Collectivism (COL) are believed to underlie the majority of these cultural variations. IND-COL measures are frequently used to categorise nations as either IND or COL and these nations are subsequently used to draw IND or COL samples for comparison on various cognitive tasks. The multicultural nature of South Africa and inconsistent findings on IND-COL in SA makes such IND-COL categorisation problematic. African nations have also been conspicuously missing from intern
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Marcellin, Catherine. "Un système cognitif polymorphe enculturé. Langues, langages et cognition." Thesis, La Réunion, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LARE0033/document.

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Cette recherche porte sur l’étude des spécificités liées à l’apprentissage, dans un contexte interculturel. Elle se situe à l’intersection des réflexions menées sur les champs conceptuels traitant du lexique mental de l’adolescent et de l’existence de deux grandes orientations cognitives, en liaison avec la culture locale et la culture scolaire en lycée professionnel à La Réunion. Le contexte de cette étude réside dans le constat que les apprenants activeraient préférentiellement un certain type de logique selon les contextes d’enculturation. Il existe deux systèmes de développement parallèles
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張欣榮 and Yan-wing Cheung. "Culture and cognition: horserace betting and punters in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31225810.

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Samson, Alain. "Culture, religion and cognition : Buddhism and holistic versus analytic thought." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2007. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2931/.

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Some cross-cultural psychologists have shown differences in cognition between Eastern and Western cultures, described as holistic versus analytic (H-A) systems of thought. It is widely assumed that Buddhism has contributed to holistic cognition. This thesis explores holistic thought among Western Buddhists by integrating methods and theories mainly from cross-cultural and social psychology, but also the cognitive anthropology of religion. H-A reasoning among Buddhists, Anglicans and Secular-Humanists in the UK is investigated in a main experiment, providing good backing for hypothesised H-A gr
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Cheung, Yan-wing. "Culture and cognition : horserace betting and punters in Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B24872933.

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Miu, Elena. "Understanding human culture : theoretical and experimental studies of cumulative culture." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12099.

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There is something extraordinary about human culture. The striking complexity of our technologies, institutions, beliefs, and norms has allowed us to colonise the entire planet. One aspect in which human culture is unique relates to its cumulative nature – we accumulate and build on knowledge from the previous generations, leading to incremental improvement in skill, which allows us to produce technologies no one individual could have invented on their own. Understanding the drivers and dynamics of this type of cumulative culture is essential for understanding how human culture has interacted
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Abreu, Guida Maria Correia Pinto de. "The relationship between home and school mathematics in a farming community in rural Brazil." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318406.

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Hodges, Richard Edgar. "Children's cognition of tonal organisation as measured by reaction time." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1993. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10018936/.

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This study examined perceptual and cognitive structures that children employ when listening to musical pitches. A number of experiments utilised reaction time as the dependent variable to identify perceptually salient factors in musical pitch perception, particularly the cognitive organisation of musical pitch in a tonal context. A chronometrically measured forced-choice paired—comparisons experimental paradigm was used with children between the ages of six and eleven, with the discrimination of same and different notes in context-free and various contextual presentations tested by a computer—
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Jraissati, Yasmine. "Couleur, culture et cognition : examen épistémologique de la théorie des termes basiques." Phd thesis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00464062.

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La catégorisation de la couleur, à l'interface entre lexique et perception, est un champ de recherche d'élection pour les théories qui soutiennent la dépendence/ indépendance du langage et des concepts. Le débat concernant l'interaction entre culture et cognition dans la catégorisation de la couleur oppose traditionnellement les perspectives dites ‘relativistes' et ‘universalistes', respectivement représentées par l'hypothèse Sapir-Whorf et la Théorie des termes basiques (TTB). Dans la perspective relativiste, on soutient que le langage détermine la perception et que la catégorisation des coul
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Dhesi, Japinder. "Made to stick? : a cognition and culture account of social group stereotypes." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2785/.

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This thesis explores the potential of the 'Cognition and Culture' approach to serve as a conceptual framework to facilitate an integrated study of the contents of social group stereotypes and the cognitive processes and structures underpinning stereotyping. More specifically, it explores the extent to which evolved cognitive predispositions may shape the contents of stereotypes, and facilitate the naturalization of status differences between groups. Experiments 1-3 utilized the Minimal Group Paradigm to investigate whether cognitive predispositions shape the contents of social group stereotype
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THOVUTTIKUL, SUTASINEE. "Contrastive Analysis of Point of View Effects in Culture-Dependent Social Cognition." Kyoto University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/244576.

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Dean, Lewis G. "A comparative investigation of the cognitive and social factors underlying a capacity for cumulative culture." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2133.

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Human culture has been proposed to uniquely exhibit a ‘ratchet effect’, with beneficial modifications being made to cultural traits over many generations. This is widely thought to have allowed an accumulation of technology and knowledge over time, and to be of central importance to the remarkable ecological and demographic success of humans. Whilst many researchers argue that the roots of human culture lie in social learning, a process widespread in nature, the exact cognitive capacities that set humans apart are not known. To provide a comparative assessment of nine separate hypotheses regar
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Green, Helen. "Cultural transmission and social communication : a cognition and culture approach to everyday metaphor about knowledge, learning, and understanding." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2015. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3106/.

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Cultural transmission theory and methods focus on the qualities of cultural artefacts (e.g. religious beliefs, supernatural ideas, folk stories) to understand how and why some spread and last better than others. This epidemiological approach is part of a broader project, cognition and culture, which seeks to understand links between mind and culture. Cognition and culture is concerned with universal, recurrent cultural phenomena, whose developmental acquisition and patterns of distribution and variation may be linked to innate mental competencies. Anthropologists, ethno- and cognitive linguist
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Stellings, Alan. "Music cognition as musical culture, a philosophical investigation of cognitivist theory of music." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0005/NQ28131.pdf.

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Watson, Claire F. I. "Social contagion in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) : implications for cognition, culture and welfare." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3446.

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The social transmission of social behaviours in nonhuman primates has been understudied, experimentally, relative to instrumental, food-related behaviours. This is disproportional in relation to the comparatively high percentage of potential social traditions reported in wild primates. I report a systematic survey of the social learning literature and provide quantitative evidence of the discrepancy (Watson and Caldwell, 2009). Addressing the identified deficit in experimental work on social behaviours, I also report three empirical studies investigating the contagious nature of affective stat
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Ujam, F. A. R. "Ecology, culture and cognition : A text book on the principles of environmental design." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.383856.

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Murry, Joe Mitchell. "Ethnicity and Cognitive Complexity of Chronic Pain Patients." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332535/.

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Sixty subjects divided equally among Anglo-Americans, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans participated in the study. They were classified as chronic pain patients by medical diagnosis and duration of pain. They were drawing Workers' Compensation and were all blue-collar workers from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Cognitive complexity is a measure of individuals' ability to construe their feelings, events of their lives, and their world in a meaningful manner. Cognitive complexity appeared to differ among the cultural groups as indicated by significantly different functionally independent cons
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Yang, Yan. "Causal Attribution and Culture – How Similar Are American and Chinese Thinking?" Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1242916653.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.<br>Advisor: Ryan Adams. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Aug. 26, 2009). Keywords: causal attribution; culture; cognition. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Thomas, Sarah. "Configurations of managerial cognition concerning productivity improvement within the United Kingdom hotel industry." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322168.

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Moon, Won Wook. "Development of guiding principles for preparation of effective Bible study materials for Korean Christians." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Thompson, William David. "Transmission, induction and evolution." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11766.

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Many human behaviours are thought to depend upon cognitive capacities enriched with innate domain-specific knowledge. Underpinning this view is the hypothesis that evolution can shape cognition to include strong innate inductive biases. In this thesis, I re-examine that hypothesis with respect to a broad class of behaviours: those that we learn from other individuals. Taking human language as a test case, I present an analysis of the co-evolutionary process that underpins the formation of innate constraints on cognition for behaviours that are culturally transmitted through inductive inference
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Frowley, Jason N. "The effect of social stereotypes on eyewitness behaviour." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15121.

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Eyewitness behaviour is a very important issue in social psychology. Recent years have seen a boom in research in this area; however, very little of this research has addressed the important and fundamental issues raised by the social factors that are involved when eyewitnessing takes place. The present thesis reports research which addresses the effect of social- stereotypic information upon a number of aspects of the eyewitness situation. Of particular interest is the effect of stereotypic information upon the judgment of aggressive and violent actions, and face and body stimuli; on memory f
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Maubrey, Régis. "Etude du röle des interactions socio-langagières dans la transmission de savoirs entre adultes : la situation de formation trans-culturelle en agriculture : cas de stagiaires africains." Paris 8, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA081608.

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Gruber, Thibaud. "A cognitive approach to the study of culture in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3101.

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The question of animal culture has been of interest for decades. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) have played a key role in the debate of whether or not it is appropriate to use the term ‘culture' to describe animal behaviour and they continue to be one of the prime species for the study of the origins of human culture. Data suggesting that chimpanzees can be considered a cultural species continue to accumulate, but this has only enhanced the debate between proponents and opponents of animal culture. Opponents do not deny that behavioural diversity exists between different populations of the same
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VAURASTEH, VICTOR PIRUZ. "ATTITUDES AND MEMORIES IN TRANSACTION: A CROSSCULTURAL EXPLORATION OF INTERGROUP ATTITUDES AND THE REMEMBERING ACTIVITY (STORY RECALL)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188082.

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The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship between intergroup attitudes and the remembering activity of two culturally different groups of subjects. The theoretical basis of this study is the transactional model as outlined by Meacham (1977). According to this model, the attitudes, memories and the sociocultural background of the rememberer constantly and simultaneously alter one another in a reciprocal fashion. Different sociocultural experiences lead to different attitudes and memories, and any changes brought about in attitudes result in changes in memories and vice ve
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Romanelli, Marie Helena. "Exploring the culture and cognition of outsider literacy practices in adult readers of graphic novels." Open access to IUP's electronic theses and dissertations, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2069/202.

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Brown, Marie Rossmann. "Teachers' knowledge and perception of cultural competence : a qualitative analysis /." Saarbrücken : VDM Verl. Dr. Müller, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb414232647.

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Del, Villar Muñoz Rafael. "Les dessins animés au Chili : syntaxe, circulation et consommation." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA094/document.

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Le but de cette recherche est la description des formes de fonctionnement diégétique-cognitive des dessins animés de la télévision hertzienne au Chili, et leurs conditions de circulation (offre) et consommation pendant l’année 2000. L’analyse du rapport entre la description de la grille de programmation, l’audience (description statistique), les mondes diégétiques et les conditions cognitives présupposées (analyse qualitatif), nous permettra de constater que les dessins animés japonais sont les plus regardés au Chili, même s’ils ne sont pas les plus programmés.Les dessins animés japonais sont
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Yves, Michel. "Présentation et représentation dans la culture primitive des autochtones du Québec." Aix-Marseille 1, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001AIX10074.

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Cette thèse analyse les dispositions cognitives dans le principe de la représentation. A cet effet, nous distinguons les processus cognitifs en oeuvre dans les représentations présentatives du monde, celles émises par l'activité perceptive et sensible de l'homme, et les représentations représentatives édifiées dans les propositions culturelles. Nous établissons, en ce sens, une différence entre les propositions culturelles émises dans le monde de l'artefact et celles produites dans le monde naturel. Nous observons, en effet, une différence entre les significations culturelles du monde moderne,
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Cavalcante, Luciane de Fátima Beckman [UNESP]. "Gestão do comportamento informacional apoiada na cultura organizacional e em modelos mentais." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/93626.

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Johanek, Cynthia L. "Cross-cultural learning styles studies and composition : re- examining definitions, generalizations, and applications of past field dependence-independence research." Virtual Press, 1993. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/864905.

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In recent years, the media have publicized the social problem of physical child abuse. This study examined three artifacts of physical abuse: the children's book Robin's Story, the popular song "Luka," and the television documentary Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse. Chapter One described each artifact and provided a literature review which detailed the writings about physical child abuse and artifacts discussing this topic. The chapter then posed research questions about how the artifacts viewed abused children and their abusers, the causes of abuse, and the solutions proposed fo
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Gers, Matt. "Human culture and cognition : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Philosophy /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/320.

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Maddux, William W. "The "Ripple Effect" cultural differences in subjective perceptions of responsibility /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1092223803.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2004.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 61 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.
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Rahman, Omar. "Language, culture, and the fundamental attribution error." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1217390.

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Previous research has shown that language differences can cause cognitive differences, and that. the availability of certain lexical terms can predispose individuals to certain ways of thinking. The fundamental attribution error (FAE), or the tendency to favor dispositional over situational explanations, is more common in Western, individualistic cultures than in Eastern, collectivist ones. In this study, bilingual South Asian-Americans read scenarios, in English and in Urdu, and rated the extent to which target individuals and situational variables were responsible for the events. It was hypo
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Hamzagic, Enes. "L’impact de la culture nationale sur la perception d’une banque à l'égard de la qualité du service : Le cas du secteur bancaire en Serbie." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AZUR0019/document.

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Secteur bancaire en Serbie est souvent vu comme un phénomène de groupe, ce qui peut influencer les individus qui en font partie. La perception individuelle, les valeurs et les pensées sont souvent influencées par le contexte culturel dans lequel nous habitons. Les valeurs représentent un certain type de système qui influence la manière dont nous générons et recevons certaines informations, qui motive nos actions et qui fait que nous adoptons un modèle comportemental. Elles nous différencient d’autres systèmes de valeur. L’étude a pour but d’enquêter sur les effets de la culture nationale sur l
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Morin, Olivier. "La transmission culturelle : questions philosophiques et méthodes quantitatives dans l'étude des traditions." Paris, EHESS, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EHES0057.

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Pourquoi existe-t-il des traditions — des pratiques et des idées qui se diffusent loin dans le temps ou dans l'espace en se transmettant d'un individu à d'autres ? Les approches cognitives de la culture cherchent d'abord la réponse dans les mécanismes qui assurent sa transmission - enseignement, imitation, mémorisation. Ce travail explore une autre possibilité : la diffusion d'une tradition ne dépend pas de la fidélité de sa transmission ou de sa rétention, mais avant tout de la quantité d'épisodes de transmission qu'elle suscite. Pour arriver a cette conclusion, la thèse combine des questions
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Kraft, Robert, Allon Kahn, José L. Medina-Franco, et al. "A cell-based fascin bioassay identifies compounds with potential anti-metastasis or cognition-enhancing functions." The Company of Biologists, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/605272.

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A first-of-its-kind, proof-of-concept drug screen with implications for two unmet medical needs.<br>The actin-bundling protein fascin is a key mediator of tumor invasion and metastasis and its activity drives filopodia formation, cell-shape changes and cell migration. Small-molecule inhibitors of fascin block tumor metastasis in animal models. Conversely, fascin deficiency might underlie the pathogenesis of some developmental brain disorders. To identify fascin-pathway modulators we devised a cell-based assay for fascin function and used it in a bidirectional drug screen. The screen utilized c
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Burdett, Emily Rachel Reed. "Cognitive developmental foundations of cultural acquisition : children's understanding of other minds." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:30370354-6c07-4279-81b6-a5666f909b4d.

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Psychological research suggests that children acquire cultural concepts through early developing cognitive mechanisms combined with specific cultural learning. An understudied area of cultural acquisition is children’s understanding of non-human minds, such as God. This thesis gives evidence that young children need not anthropomorphize non-human minds in order to understand them. Instead, children have a general “theory of mind” that is tailored through experience to accommodate the various important minds in their cultural environment. The intuitive default is toward super-attributes, making
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Overmann, Karenleigh Anne. "Materiality in numerical cognition : material engagement theory and the counting technologies of the ancient Near East." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1d0e3925-5207-4858-9820-681ba97c6867.

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Using the Material Engagement Theory of Cognitive Archaeologist Lambros Malafouris as its framework, the thesis offers a unique synthesis of data from neuroscience, ethnography, linguistics, and archaeology to outline how number concepts are realized, manipulated, and elaborated. The process is described as an interactivity of psychological processes like numerosity, behaviors that manipulate objects into concept-generating stimuli, and material objects with semiotic qualities distinct from those of language and agency distinct from that of brains and bodies. The counting technologies of the A
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Watson, Stuart Kyle. "Factors shaping social learning in chimpanzees." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12781.

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Culture is an important means by which both human and non-human animals transmit useful behaviours between individuals and generations. Amongst animals, chimpanzees live particularly varied cultural lives. However, the processes and factors that influence whether chimpanzees will be motivated to copy an observed behaviour are poorly understood. In this thesis, I explore various factors and their influence on social learning decisions in chimpanzees. In turn, the chapters examine the influence of (i) rank-bias towards copying dominant individuals, (ii) majority and contextual influences and fin
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Pedersen, Josephine. "The analysis of representations of disability in Western culture within a feminist framework." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2001. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/3002/.

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This thesis examines the representation of disabled people in Western culture within the context of feminist theoretical analyses to compare images of disabled people with the representations of women's bodies that are found in cultural representations. The body of the thesis is comprised of six chapters which explore images of disability in six major cultural sites for such images: charitable advertising, popular women's magazines, literature for children, film, biblical narratives and pornography. My analysis of these sites suggests that there are parallels between the ways in which women's
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Parmentier, Marie-Christophe. "Logique des classes, logiques des collections : coexistence de deux formes de cognition et leur rapport dans une approche interculturelle." La Réunion, 2000. http://elgebar.univ-reunion.fr/login?url=http://thesesenligne.univ.run/00_05_Parmentier_1.pdf.

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L'objet du travail est l'étude interculturelle de deux formes de catégorisation du réel, présentés chez tout un chacun avec des pondérations différentes, fonction des milieux d'enculturation. Le rapport existant entre ces deux types de catégorisation définit une façon préférentielle récurrente de se représenter et de traiter les données. Les deux axes, paradigmatiques et syntagmatiques, du langage sont envisagés comme révélateurs d'un système logique mis en route et comme candidats possibles à une explication d'une transmission cognitive enculturée. Les rapports que ces deux systèmes logiques
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Paranhos, Rovena Lopes. "Cultura organizacional e cognição social." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2005. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4668.

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Este estudo, de natureza teórica, teve por objetivo discutir a possibilidade de aplicação da abordagem psicossociológica da Cognição Social à análise e compreensão do fenômeno da cultura nas organizações sociais de produção. Neste sentido, está dividido em quatro partes. A primeira delas traça a evolução histórica do conceito de cultura do ponto de vista antropológico. A segunda parte analisa a apropriação deste conceito nas organizações sociais de produção, procurando evidenciar as diferentes apropriações até agora feitas e as relações que guardam com os igualmente diferentes concepções histó
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Preston, Jodi. "An investigation of Hmong students' performance on four standardized cognitive ability measures." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999prestonj.pdf.

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Levine, Jordan. "An even less convenient truth : addressing the challenge of sustainable development through an integration of cognition and culture." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50565.

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‘Sustainable development,’ or how to achieve durably desirable states in our planet’s nested social-ecological systems, has been heralded by many as the core civilizational challenge of the 21st century. Adding to this challenge is the fact that the scientific study of how to model and manage such complex systems is confounded by a number of archaic intellectual legacies from predecessor disciplines. Chief among these is a relatively crude, low-resolution ‘rational actor’ theory of human behaviour, which lies in tension with a range of more recent, empirical insights regarding how humans absor
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