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  • A cross-cultural study of predictors of self-handicapping in university students 
    Pulford B.D.; Johnson A.; Awaida M. (OXFORDTHE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, ENGLAND, 2005)
    The influence of Perfectionism, Self-esteem and Self-efficacy on Self-handicapping in studying was investigated in relation to individualism and collectivism in students in the United Kingdom and Lebanon. One hundred and ...
  • A review of EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies of creativity and insight 
    Dietrich A.; Kanso R. (WASHINGTON750 FIRST ST NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20002-4242 USA, 2010)
    Creativity is a cornerstone of what makes us human, yet the neural mechanisms underlying creative thinking are poorly understood. A recent surge of interest into the neural underpinnings of creative behavior has produced ...
  • American Democracy and the Pursuit of Equality 
    Serhan, Randa; Chowkwanyun, Merlin (Paradigm Publishers, )
    This collection assembles some of the country's foremost social scientists in one volume. It contains diverse investigations of metropolitan transformation, recent education policy, the (in)justice of disaster relief, the ...
  • Arab attributions for the attack on America: The case of Lebanese subelites 
    Sidanius J.; Henry P.J.; Pratto F.; Levin S. (THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2004)
    There are at least two major ways of understanding the attributions that Arab young people used to explain the September 11 th attack on the World Trade Center: (a) in terms of a so-called clash of civilizations or an ...
  • Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries 
    Dajani, Nabil; Mellor, Noha; Ayish, Muhammad (Polity, )
    This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema, and new media. Through ...
  • The Arab revolutions; the emergence of a new political subjectivity 
    Hanafi, Sari (University of California Press, 2012-04-01)
    Since late 2010, the Arab World has witnessed regime changes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya; and revolts by Arab citizens are still underway in Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, along with reform initiatives at different levels. These ...
  • Are Perceptions of Organizational Justice Universal? An Exploration of Measurement Invariance Across Thirteen Cultures 
    Fischer R.; Ferreira M.C.; Jiang D.-Y.; Cheng B.-S.; Achoui M.M.; Wong C.C.; Baris G.; Mendoza S.; van Meurs N.; Achmadi D.; Hassan A.; Zeytinoglu G.; Dalyan F.; Harb C.; Darwish D.D.; Assmar E.M. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2011)
    Previous research examined whether justice effects are comparable, focusing on quantitative differences in justice effects. This study examines whether justice perceptions are structured similarly or whether they are ...
  • Asylum seekers-patron seekers: Interpreting Iraqi Kurdish migration 
    King D.E. (OKLAHOMA CITY3000 UNITED FOUNDERS BLVD, STE 148, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73112 USA, 2005)
    This article examines the phenomenon of Iraqi Kurdish out-migration to the West between 1991 and 2003. It argues that migrants looked to the West and Westerners as potential patrons and were incited to migrate by their ...
  • Breaking ground in cross-cultural research on the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia): A multi-national study involving 73 countries 
    Proyer R.T.; Ruch W.; Ali N.S.; Al-Olimat H.S.; Amemiya T.; Adal T.A.; Ansari S.A.; Arhar P.; Asem G.; Baudin N.; Bawab S.; Bergen D.; Brdar I.; Brites R.; Brunner-Sciarra M.; Carrell A.; Dios H.C.; Celik M.; Ceschi G.; Chang K.; Guo-Hai C.; Cheryomukhin A.; Chik M.P.Y.; Chlopicki W.; Cranney J.; Dahourou D.; Doosje S.; Dore M.; El-Arousy N.; Fickova E.; Fuhr M.; Gallivan J.; Geling H.; Germikova L.; Giedraityte M.; Goh A.; Gonzalez R.D.; Ho S.K.; Hrebickova M.; Jaime B.; Kaare B.H.; Kamble S.; Kazarian S.; Kerkkanen P.; Klementova M.; Kobozeva I.M.; Kovjanic S.; Kumaraswamy N.; Lampert M.; Liao C.-C.; Levesque M.; Loizou E.; Diaz Loving R.; Lyttle J.; MacHline V.C.; McGoldrick S.; McRorie M.; Min L.; Mottus R.; Munyae M.M.; Navia C.E.; Nkhalamba M.; Pedrini P.P.; Petkova M.; Platt T.; Popa D.-E.; Radomska A.; Rashid T.; Rawlings D.; Rubio V.J.; Samson A.C.; Sarid O.; Shams S.; Sisokohm S.; Smari J.; Sneddon I.; Snikhovska I.; Stephanenko E.A.; Stokenberga I.; Stuer H.; Tanoto Y.S.R.; Tapia L.; Taylor J.; Thibault P.; Thompson A.; Thorn H.; Toyota H.; Ujlaky J.; Vanno V.; Wang J.; Van Der Westhuizen B.; Wijayathilake D.; Wong P.S.O.; Wycoff E.B.; Yeun E.J. (BERLINGENTHINER STRASSE 13, 10785 BERLIN, GERMANY, 2009)
    The current study examines whether the fear of being laughed at (gelotophobia) can be assessed reliably and validly by means of a self-report instrument in different countries of the world. All items of the GELOPH (Ruch ...
  • Building the infrastructure, modeling the nation: The case of birth in Palestine 
    Wick L. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2008)
    This article explores the intersection between the professional politics of medicine and national politics during the second Palestinian uprising, which erupted in 2000. Through an analysis of stories about childbirth from ...
  • Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon: A History of the Internationalization of Communal Conflict 
    Khalaf, Samir (Columbia University Press, )
  • Civil society in North-South relations. The case of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. A view from South 
    Hanafi S. (, 2005)
    This article aims to review some responses to human rights issues in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership from a Southern perspective. The term Southern actors in this article refers mainly to actors within the Arab sphere, ...
  • Comparing Media from Around the World 
    Dajani, Nabil; McKenzie, Robert; Ian Weber (Pearson, )
  • Complex entanglements: Moving from policy to public sociology in the Arab world 
    Hanafi, Sari (SAGE Publications, 2018-03)
    In this article, the author surveys his own career to illustrate some of the dilemmas of research, especially when it assumes a critical and public face. He shows how his work on Palestinian refugees, their socioeconomic ...
  • Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism: Personhood beliefs across 37 national groups 
    Owe E.; Vignoles V.L.; Becker M.; Brown R.; Smith P.B.; Lee S.W.S.; Easterbrook M.; Gadre T.; Zhang X.; Gheorghiu M.; Baguma P.; Tatarko A.; Aldhafri S.; Zinkeng M.; Schwartz S.J.; Des Rosiers S.E.; Villamar J.A.; Mekonnen K.H.; Regalia C.; Manzi C.; Brambilla M.; Kusdil E.; Caglar S.; Gavreliuc A.; Martin M.; Jianxin Z.; Lv S.; Fischer R.; Milfont T.L.; Torres A.; Camino L.; Kreuzbauer R.; Gausel N.; Buitendach J.H.; Lemos F.C.S.; Fritsche I.; Moller B.; Harb C.; Valk A.; Espinosa A.; Jaafar J.L.; Yuki M.; Ferreira M.C.; Chobthamkit P.; Fulop M.; Chybicka A.; Wang Q.; Bond M.H.; Gonzalez R.; Didier N.; Carrasco D.; Cadena M.P.; Lay S.; Gardarsdottir R.B.; Nizharadze G.; Pyszczynski T.; Kesebir P.; Herman G.; de Sauvage I.; Courtois M.; Bourguignon D.; Ozgen E.; Guner U.E.; Yamakoglu N.; Abuhamdeh S.; Mogaji A.; Macapagal M.E.J.; Koller S.H.; Amponsah B.; Misra G.; Kapur P.; Vargas Trujillo E.; Balanta P.; Cendales Ayala B.; Schweiger Gallo I.; Prieto Gil P.; Clemares R.L.; Campara G.; Jalal B. (THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2013)
    Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the ...
  • Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries: Palestinian Dilemmas 
    Hanafi, Sari (American University in Cairo Press, )
  • Cultural appropriateness of the family assessment device (FAD) in the case of ethnic Armenian adolescents in Lebanon 
    Kazarian S.S. (LONDON1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND, 2010)
    Background: The purpose of this study is to report on the cultural appropriateness of the 60-item Armenian version of the Family Assessment Device (FAD) among ethnic Armenian adolescents in the ethnically and religiously ...
  • Cultural Bases for Self-Evaluation: Seeing Oneself Positively in Different Cultural Contexts 
    Becker M.; Vignoles V.L.; Owe E.; Easterbrook M.J.; Brown R.; Smith P.B.; Bond M.H.; Regalia C.; Manzi C.; Brambilla M.; Aldhafri S.; Gonzalez R.; Carrasco D.; Paz Cadena M.; Lay S.; Schweiger Gallo I.; Torres A.; Camino L.; Ozgen E.; Guner U.E.; Yamakoglu N.; Silveira Lemos F.C.; Trujillo E.V.; Balanta P.; Macapagal M.E.J.; Cristina Ferreira M.; Herman G.; de Sauvage I.; Bourguignon D.; Wang Q.; Fulop M.; Harb C.; Chybicka A.; Mekonnen K.H.; Martin M.; Nizharadze G.; Gavreliuc A.; Buitendach J.; Valk A.; Koller S.H. (SAGE Publications Inc.; THOUSAND OAKS2455 TELLER RD, THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA, 2014)
    Several theories propose that self-esteem, or positive self-regard, results from fulfilling the value priorities of one's surrounding culture. Yet, surprisingly little evidence exists for this assertion, and theories differ ...
  • Cultural beliefs that may discourage breastfeeding among Lebanese women: A qualitative analysis 
    Osman H.; El Zein L.; Wick L. (, 2009)
    Background: Although the health benefits of breastfeeding are well established, early introduction of formula remains a common practice. Cultural beliefs and practices can have an important impact on breastfeeding. This ...
  • Cultural difference or cultural hegemony? Contextualizing the danish cartoon controversy within migration spaces 
    Hanafi S. (, 2009)
    This article will argue that the growing polarization between what is perceived as Western society and Muslim 'communities' can neither be analyzed as a clash between identities nor as a reflection of cultural differences. ...

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