Traditions slip into daily life so easily that most people repeat them without pausing to ask how they started. A small ...

Wu illustrated that Lu Xun approached societal ills with a physician's precision, "prescribing" stories as his remedy. He constructed characters like a traditional herbalist formulating a treatment, ...

A new meta-analysis concludes that practicing gratitude increases positive emotions across many cultures. The more ways you ...

After the President’s Office announced the simultaneous closing of the Division of Diversity and Innovative Community ...

Flowers, often part of Minoan and Egyptian art, were symbols of life, the afterlife, and rebirth, according to a study of ...

Language shapes perception and cognition. Boroditsky's research supports linguistic relativity. Multilingualism highlights cognitive flexibility. Grammatical structures further shape cognition. (File ...

The writers of the Gospels seized the opportunity at once. “When I am lifted up from the earth,” St John records Jesus as saying, “I shall draw all men to myself.” To die in an elevated position with ...

There was a time when you bought a gadget with a laundry list of features and capabilities, and they were available for the lifespan of that product. Today, you buy a tech gadget with the potential to ...

Department of Foreign Languages, Qilu Normal University, Jinan, China. Driven by globalization, social media has become a key field for cross-cultural communication. Since 2019, the U.S. government, ...

“My spouse and I come from different cultural backgrounds, with different perspectives, upbringings, and experiences. We love each other, but our biggest cultural divide is how we communicate. Since ...

Daily, free-to-view philanthropy content providing a space for news, thinking, debate and peer exchange among philanthropy practitioners worldwide. As humanity faces worldwide challenges like the ...

Friendship is both ubiquitous and economically important, but neglected in the economic literature. We provide a definition of friendship supported by anthropology research that we believe is ...