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Harry Charalambos Triandis (16 October 1926 – 1 June 2019) was Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [1] He was considered a pioneer of cross-cultural psychology and his research focused on the cognitive aspects of attitudes, norms, roles and values in different cultures.
Culture Assimilators are culture training programs first developed at the University of Illinois in the 1960s. A team from the psychology department of that university was asked by the Office of Naval Research to develop a training method that would “make every sailor an ambassador of the United States.”
Michele J. Gelfand is an American cultural psychologist.She is both a professor of organizational behavior and the John H. Scully professor of cross-cultural management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and – by courtesy – a professor of psychology at the School of Humanities and Sciences of Stanford University. [1]
Denmark is an example of a small power distance culture, while Japan embodies a large power distance culture; The United States is considered to be in the middle in regards to power distance. [ 22 ] Drawing on the research of Geert Hofstede , face-negotiation theory notes that while individualism and power distance are two separate dimensions ...
Helen Gleeson OBE, BSc in physics 1983, PhD in 1986 and the first woman to hold a chair in the Physics Department at the Victoria University of Manchester, before becoming Head of School in 2008. She specialises in soft matter and liquid crystals and is now Cavendish Professor and Head of the School of Physics at the University of Leeds.
Kat Fletcher, president of the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom, 2004–2006 (Sociology) Bagrat Galstanyan, Armenian theologian and cleric, primate of the Diocese of Tavush; Andrew Harrison (born 1970), CEO of Carphone Warehouse [33] Lindsay Hawker, British English teacher and murder victim (English, 2006) [34]
Berry was born in Montreal in 1939. [4] He graduated from the local Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University) in 1963. [5] He moved to Scotland and obtained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1966, [6] presenting the thesis "Cultural determinants of perception".
History of women and the family in the United States [6] Nathan G. Hale Jr. University of California, Riverside: Freud's influence on American culture in the 1920s [177] Andrew R. Hilen Jr. University of Washington: Also won in 1954 [27] Daniel Levine: Bowdoin College: Comparative study on the development of social welfare in Denmark and the ...