Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "culture"
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
(2015)We propose an index of population diversity based on peopleís birthplaces and decompose it into a size (share of immigrants) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component. We show that birthplace diversity is largely ... -
Caregiving as Moral Experience
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Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations
(SAGE Publications, 2011)This article examines the interplay of culture, cognition, and social networks in organizations with norms that emphasize cross-boundary collaboration. In such settings, social desirability concerns can induce a disparity ... -
Do Transmission Mechanisms or Social Systems Drive Cultural Dynamics in Socially Structured Populations?
(Elsevier, 2009)Cultural traits spread via multiple mechanisms among individuals within social groups, including via transmission biases that occur when subordinates copy from dominants (prestige transmission), or via common cultural trait ... -
Exact Equality and Successor Function: Two Key Concepts on the Path Towards Understanding Exact Numbers
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)Humans possess two nonverbal systems capable of representing numbers, both limited in their representational power: the first one represents numbers in an approximate fashion, and the second one conveys information about ... -
‘Face’ and the embodiment of stigma in China: The cases of schizophrenia and AIDS
(Elsevier BV, 2008)The majority of theoretical models have defined stigma as occurring psychologically and limit its negative effects to individual processes. This paper, via an analysis of how 'face' is embodied in China, deepens an ... -
Genetic and 'cultural' similarity in wild chimpanzees
(The Royal Society, 2010)The question of whether animals possess ‘cultures’ or ‘traditions’ continues to generate widespread theoretical and empirical interest. Studies of wild chimpanzees have featured prominently in this discussion, as the ... -
Historical Selection
(American Psychological Association, 2009)This paper discusses a select list of six historical conditions, some long-lasting, some of shorter duration that have influenced the research of many psychologists. The conditions are: (a) the emergence of industrialization ... -
How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)The essay discusses the impact of Bourdieu on modern U.S. sociology. Specifically, I offer five observations about the reception and adoption of Bourdieu by U.S. sociologists from the perspective of someone who was involved ... -
The Importance of History for Economic Development
(Annual Reviews, 2009)This article provides a survey of a growing body of empirical evidence that points toward the important long-term effects that historic events can have on economic development. The most recent studies, using microlevel ... -
Individual Differences in Holistic Processing Predict the Own-Race Advantage in Recognition Memory
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Individuals are consistently better at recognizing own-race faces compared to other-race faces (other-race effect, ORE). One popular hypothesis is that this recognition memory ORE is caused by differential own- and other-race ... -
Intangible Factors: Social Capital, Social Networks, and America’s Second Reconstruction
(2023-06-01)This dissertation comprises three studies of meaning-making in judicial opinions involving school desegregation in the United States over the past 60 years. In the first study, I examine rhetorical shifts across 82 Supreme ... -
Links that speak: The global language network and its association with global fame
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014)Languages vary enormously in global importance because of historical, demographic, political, and technological forces. However, beyond simple measures of population and economic power, there has been no rigorous quantitative ... -
Modeling Imitation and Emulation in Constrained Search Spaces
(Psychonomic Society, 2011)Social transmission of behavior can be realized through distinct mechanisms. Research on primate social learning typically distinguishes two forms of information that a learner can extract from a demonstrator: copying ... -
National differences in gender-science stereotypes predict national sex differences in science and math achievement
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009)About 70% of more than half a million Implicit Association Tests completed by citizens of 34 countries revealed expected implicit stereotypes associating science with males more than with females. We discovered that ... -
Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: Exile, Culture, and the Precarity of Life
(2014)The present article reflects on the fearful experience of political banishment by focusing on the constitution of the exile’s identity and its precarious relationship to property, be it one’s possessions, one’s body, or ... -
The Omnivorous Science: Jean and John Comaroff on the Politics of Anthropology, Capitalism, and Contemporary States
(Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red (AIBR), 2012)Few social scientists reach the status of contemporary classics. Jean and John Comaroff are among those who could be included in that category. Their current work is indeed on the crest of the wave of social analysis, but ... -
Pirahã Exceptionality: A Reassessment
(Linguistic Society of America, 2009)Everett (2005) has claimed that the grammar of Pirahã is exceptional in displaying 'inexplicable gaps', that these gaps follow from a cultural principle restricting communication to 'immediate experience', and that this ... -
Review symposium: Generational succession in the Big Apple
(Informa UK Limited, 2010)Inheriting the City presents the results of a major research project on the children of immigrants in New York City, focusing on eight groups, five of which are immigrant groups: Dominicans; South Americans from Colombia, ... -
The Self in Social Contexts
(Annual Reviews, 1994)