In: European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016, vol. 39, no. 3, p. 388-400
Albeit indispensable to understanding human action, the concept of culture has suffered from excessive enthusiasm in the fields of intercultural education as well as in intercultural teacher training, leading too often to culturalist stances. These excesses of intercultural education and training as well as their contradictory message (between praising and minimising – even ignoring –...
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In: Review of World Economics, 2008, vol. 144, no. 3, p. 558-587
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In: Social Indicators Research, 2007, vol. 82, no. 3, p. 505-526
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In: Annals of Oncology, 1999, vol. 10, p. S41-S45
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In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2007, vol. 30, no. 4, p. 393-407
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In: Chemical Senses, 2013, vol. 38, no. 2, p. 175-186
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The aim of this paper is to assess the role of culture in shaping individual preferences to- wards different long-term care (LTC) arrangements. The analysis uses Swiss data from two administrative databases covering the universe of formal LTC providers between 2007 and 2013. Switzerland is a multi-cultural confederation where state administrative borders do not always coincide with cultural...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM003.
Il cibo, e più in generale l’alimentazione, sono stati spesso paragonati al linguaggio e alla comunicazione: dal punto di vista antropologico, l’alimentazione costituisce senza dubbio uno dei primi fabbisogni dell’umanità. D’altra parte, come sostiene Roland Barthes (1961), tale necessità è altamente strutturata e coinvolge diverse sostanze, tecniche e usi, che entrano a far parte di...
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In: Applied Ergonomics
This article examines the influence of socio-cultural background and product value on different outcomes of usability tests. A study was conducted in two different socio-cultural regions, Switzerland and East Germany, which differed in a number of aspects (e.g. economic power, price sensitivity and culture). Product value (high vs. low) was varied by manipulating the price of the product....
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In: Journal of Vision, 2010, vol. 10, no. 6, p. 21
Culture shapes how people gather information from the visual world. We recently showed that Western observers focus on the eyes region during face recognition, whereas Eastern observers fixate predominantly the center of faces, suggesting a more effective use of extrafoveal information for Easterners compared to Westerners. However, the cultural variation in eye movements during scene...
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