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Of freedom and human bondage

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ID3065202
AutoresAnne Reboul (0000-0003-3976-5273, French Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume50
Fascículo1
Páginas128-141
Data de publicação2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0539018410388836
OpenAlexW2021629279
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas28

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