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Psychological Aspects of Social Axioms Understanding Global Belief Systems /

"This work provides ways to characterize cultures, and gives researchers a set of lenses for looking at cultures. When researchers know what people value and how they use the axioms, they can predict what people will do in their cultural niche - how they are likely to interact with each other,...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Leung, Kwok. (Editor), Bond, Michael Harris. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
Series:International and Cultural Psychology,
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Psychology, clinical.
Applied psychology.
Psychology.
Cross Cultural Psychology.
Clinical Psychology.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09810-4
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section A: Integrative Reviews and Basic Issues
  • The Mileage from Social Axioms: Learning form the Past and Looking Forward
  • Social Axioms and Organizational Behavior
  • Structural Equivalence and Differential Item Functioning in the Social Axioms Survey
  • Exploring Ethnic Group and Geographic Differences in Social Axioms in the USA
  • Social Axioms among Malay, Chinese, and Kadazan Students in Sabah, Malaysia: Differences in Gender and Ethnic Groups
  • Section B: Transmission of Social Axioms
  • Are Parents Decisive? The Intergenerational Transmission of Social Axioms Under Conditions of Rapid Social Change
  • Processes of Transmission and Change of Social Axioms and their Behavioral Influence in Spanish Culture
  • Section C: Nomological Network of Social Axioms
  • Linking Social Axioms with Behavioral Indicators and Personality in Romania
  • Exploring the Links between Social Axioms and the Epistemological Beliefts about Learning held by Filipino Students
  • An Examination of Proactive Coping and Social Beliefs among Christians and Muslims
  • Social Axioms in Greece: Etic and Emic Dimensions and their Relationship with Locus of Control
  • Do General Beliefs Predict Specific Behavioral Intentions in Indonesia? The Role of Social Axioms within the Theory of Planned Behavior
  • Cynicism in Love and in Politics
  • Social Axioms in Italian Culture: Relationships with Locus of Control and Moral Development
  • Social Axioms and Individualistic-Collectivist Orientations in Indian College Students
  • Explaining Individuating Behavior Across Cultures: The Contributions of Values and Social Axioms
  • Believing in Beliefs: A Scientific but Personal Quest.

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