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Steering the Cultural Dynamics
Get PDFA peer-revieved book based on presentations at the XX Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2010, Melbourne, Australia. Edited by Yoshihisa Kashima, Emiko Kashima, and Ruth Beatson.
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Worker wellbeing in Malaysia: Prediction of wellbeing from psychosocial work environment, organizational justice and work family conflict
Get PDFThe current study investigates if psychosocial work environment, organizational justice and work family conflict predict Malaysian\ud
workers’ wellbeing. The current study expands previous research by assessing wellbeing using composite measures of job satisfaction,\ud
life satisfaction, positive affect and negative affect as well as job affective wellbeing, psychological and spiritual wellbeing. One thousand\ud
one hundred and sixty five Malaysian workers in the manufacturing sector (551 men, 614 women, age range: 18-59 years) answered\ud
questionnaires. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that psychosocial work environment, organizational justice\ud
and work family conflict predicted wellbeing. With regard to ethnic and cultural differences in wellbeing, Indian-Malaysians reported\ud
significantly higher levels of wellbeing compared to Malays. However, Chinese-Malaysians were not different from Indian-Malaysians\ud
or Malays. There was no significant gender difference on wellbeing. The interpretation of this cultural difference requires caution due\ud
to the small number of Indian-Malaysians in the sample
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Nostalgia enhances detection of death threat: neural and behavioral evidence
No full textAbstract An experiment examined the potency of nostalgia—a sentimental longing for one’s past—to facilitate detection of death-related stimuli, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral techniques (i.e., judgmental accuracy, reaction times). We hypothesized and found that, at the neural level, nostalgic (relative to control) participants evinced more intense activation in right amygdala in response to death-related (vs. neutral) words. We also hypothesized and found that, at the behavioral level, nostalgic (relative to control) participants manifested greater accuracy in judging whether two death-related (vs. neutral) words belonged in the same category. Exploratory analyses indicated that nostalgic (relative to control) participants did not show faster reaction times to death-related (vs. neutral) words. In all, nostalgia appeared to aid in death threat detection. We consider implications for the relevant literatures
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Determinants of perceived group heterogeneity
No full textThe determinants of perceived variability among members of a group were examined. Based on the assumption that one's knowledge about a group involves two components, (a) group-level knowledge and (b) exemplar knowledge, a model of perceived group variability was developed. The model postulated three hypotheses: (1) The more group-level knowledge one has, the more homogeneous the group is perceived to be; (2) The group is perceived as more variable when exemplar knowledge is relatively more salient than group-level knowledge; (3) The effects of the relative salience of exemplars will be more pronounced when greater knowledge is available about the group. In contrast, past studies suggested that judgments of variability would be determined by (4) sum knowledge about the group, and by (5) the perceiver's group membership.The five hypotheses were examined in two studies. Study 1 used five natural groups as targets; the amount of group knowledge and subjects' group membership were measured while the relative salience of exemplars was manipulated. Study 2 used a minimal group; the amount of group knowledge, the relative salience of exemplars, and the group membership were manipulated in a 3 x 3 x 2 factorial design.Both studies supported Hypothesis 1 while rejecting Hypotheses 4 and 5. Study 2 supported Hypotheses 2 and 3, suggesting that the perceived group variability was influenced by the relative salience of exemplars and by its interaction with the amount of group knowledge. These results imply that out-group homogeneity perception may be mediated by both amount of group knowledge and by the relative salience of the exemplar information.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:55:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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