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Of freedom and human bondage

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ID3065202
AuthorsAnne Reboul (0000-0003-3976-5273, French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume50
Issue1
Pages128-141
Publication date2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0539018410388836
OpenAlexW2021629279
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited28

The current state of the world requires changing cognition on several counts, and this necessarily involves efficient intercultural communication. It has often been thought that intercultural communication is problematical in itself due to linguistic and cultural diversity. The present article aims to show that this is not the case, but that what makes intercultural communication difficult are the universal rather than culture-specific features of humans, e.g. time preference (i.e. short-sighted decision-making) and group preference (a tendency to favor one's own group over others

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Intercultural communication · Linguistics · Preference · Sociology · Anthropology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Communication · Language and cultural evolution · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology