cross-cultural differences

How Do Children Make Sense of the Differences They See Among Students at School?

How children explain the differences they see in their classmates have important implications for their motivation and academic performance, as well as for educational inequalities.

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Smiling Loners Might Explain Why China Smiles Less than the U.S.

People in the U.S. smile twice as much as people in China, but why?

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Good Intentions Are in the Eye of the Beholder: Culture Shapes Perceived Intentionality

by Cory Clark

When determining whether someone did something intentionally, should it matter whether the action had positive or negative consequences? Logically, the downstream consequences of an action should be irrelevant to such judgments, but research reveals that U.S. Americans are far more likely to see actions with harmful side-effects as intended than identical actions with helpful ones.[1]

Consider the following example:

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