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Bitgood, Stephen; Davey, Gareth; Huang, Xiaoyi; Fung, Holly – Environment and Behavior, 2013
Pedestrian navigation through public spaces reflects the nature of interaction between behavior and environment. This study compared pedestrian choice behavior at shopping mall intersections in China and the United States. The study found that in both countries (a) pedestrians chose movement patterns that involved the fewest steps and (b) there…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pedestrian Traffic, Behavior Patterns, Traffic Safety
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Derlega, Valerian J.; Stepien, Ewa Gurnik – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1977
In the first study reported most American norms governing reactions to self-disclosure to friends and strangers were replicated. In the second study American norms governing self-disclosure to males and females were not replicated. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
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Sistrunk, Frank; And Others – Child Development, 1971
This study investigated the relative conformity of American and Brazilian students across ages from 9 to 21 years old. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis
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Leenaars, Antoon A.; Lester, David – Adolescence, 1995
Investigated rates of birth, divorce, marriage, and unemployment for subgroups in Canada and the United States and their effects on suicide rates. In Canada, domestic integration and the economy predicted youth suicide rates more accurately than they did adult rates. The United States had less variation in predictors for age groups. (RJM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors
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Maccoby, Eleanor E.; Feldman, S. Shirley – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1972
Two studies are reported: (1) the growth and change, from age 2 to 3, in certain aspects of attachment to mother and stranger-fear among a group of American children, and (2) a cross-sectional study of a group of 2 1/2 year-old kibbutz-reared Israeli children. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cross Sectional Studies
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King, Jennifer – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 1985
Addresses the impact of patients' beliefs about health care on their decisions to follow medical advice and to undertake different actions to prevent illness. Concludes that among other things, doctors need to become more willing to modify their treatment plans according to patient needs. (VLC)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, Communication Research, Communication Skills
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Todd-Mancillas, William R.; Rossi, Ana Maria – 1986
A study was conducted to amplify previous research efforts concerned with the identification of similarities and differences between Brazilian men's and women's managerial communication behaviors. Previous findings have indicated that, in contrast with American managers, Brazilian men and women managers were more likely to use power to resolve…
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Comparative Analysis
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Cogan, Jeanine C.; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1996
College students in Ghana (n=349) and the United States (n=219) completed questionnaires about perceptions about weight, dieting, and ideal bodies. Students in Ghana were more accepting of large body size. Findings illustrated that perceptions of ideal body size and corresponding behaviors are influenced by culture and gender. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Body Image, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Ishii, Satoshi; And Others – 1980
The Communicator Style Measure (CSM) was administered to 731 students in Japanese universities and 520 American students at the University of Hawaii to discover if members of certain ethnic or national groups possessed a style of speaking that distinguished them from members of other groups. The CSM contains 51 randomly ordered items that inquire…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Communication Research
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Blinco, Priscilla M. A. – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1992
Tests the hypothesis that Japanese children demonstrate higher task persistence under non-competitive conditions than do their U.S. peers. Comparison of 107 first graders in Japan and 86 in the United States supports the study hypothesis. Type of school and student gender have no significant effect on task persistence. (SLD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Triandis, Harry C.; And Others – 1968
Survey responses from 1,620 subjects in the United States, Greece, India, Peru, and Taiwan provide information on cross-cultural role perceptions. Study data reveal (1) the principal factors accounting for the variance in role perception in each culture, (2) those factors that are the same in all cultures, (3) the equivalent factor scores that…
Descriptors: American Culture, Behavior Patterns, Chinese Culture, Comparative Analysis
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Caleekal-John, Anuppa; Goodstadt, Michael S. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 1983
Available data on Canadian and U.S. student drinking patterns are compared. Among the factors and implications discussed are prevalency and volume of drinking, its relation to other drug use, negative behavioral consequences, student characteristics, attitudes, motivation, and the influence of home, high school, and college environment in…
Descriptors: Age, Alcoholic Beverages, Attendance Patterns, Behavior Patterns
Willey, Diane L.; And Others – 1993
R. J. Sternberg and others found that the types of behaviors reported by laypersons as characterizing different types of intelligence varied across the different groups tested, and that a person's concept of intelligence affects the manner in which he or she evaluates the intelligence of others. Two experiments by Sternberg et al. were replicated.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Behavior Patterns, Beliefs, College Students
Figueiredo, Eliane L.; Sisto, Fermino F. – 1997
The evolution of creative thought was examined, an examination that resulted in the construction of universal criteria for analysis and detailed evidence for the evolution of novelty, i.e. how children create knowledge. The collected data came from 200 students from the United States and 200 from Brazil. Each of the 10 age groups (from 4 to 13…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Thorelli, Hans B.; And Others – 1977
The paper presents the text of a business and economics session at a conference on recent sociopolitical and socioeconomic developments in West Germany and the United States. Intended as a contribution to the dialogue between the two societies, the paper focuses on differences between average and sophisticated consumers within each country and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Conferences
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