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Willingness to pay for dentin regeneration in a sample of dentate adults
(Munksgaard International PublishersBlackwell Publishing Ltd, 2004-06)
High Power, Low Power, and Equality: Culture Beyond Individualism and Collectivism
(Elsevier, 2006)
Models of culture are operationalized as individualism and collectivism and have not given sufficient attention to other organizing axes—especially how a society handles power, dependence, and equality. Shavitt, Lalwani, ...
Keeping the Past Alive: Memories of Israeli Jews at the Turn of the Millennium
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-03)
We asked in an open-ended way in 1999–2000 what national and world events Israeli Jews consider most important from the past 60 years. Ten events were identified as foremost, including three from the time of independence ...
The Responsibility Paradox: Multinational Firms and Global Corporate Social Responsibility
(2006-04-06)
This paper examines the impact of multinational firms' increasingly blurred geographical and institutional boundaries on the nature and definition of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). It begins with a brief history ...
Thinking about the self influences thinking in general: Cognitive consequences of salient self-concept
(Elsevier, 2002)
Two studies support our hypothesis that connected and interdependent self-focus evokes a generally context-dependent cognitive mode (focused on object–context relations) and provide some evidence that separate and independent ...
Russia Faces Depopulation? Dynamics of Population Decline
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-05)
Between 1992 and 1993 Russia's population declined, as it has in every succeeding year. This has been viewed as a population disaster, related to high adult male mortality and deterioration of the health care system. Some ...
Rural parents with urban children: social and economic implications of migration for the rural elderly in Thailand
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-05)
The present study explores the social and economic consequences of the migration of adult children to urban areas for rural parents in Thailand. Attention is given to the circumstances under which such migration takes ...
Collective Knowledge of Public Events: The Soviet Era from the Great Purge to Glasnost
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)
The ups and downs of thinking about a successful other: self-construals and the consequences of social comparisons
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2001-05)
We hypothesized that the consequences of upward social comparisons are mediated by independent versus interdependent content of self-construals. Independent self-construals emphasize personal uniqueness; thus comparison ...