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A Miami University graduate student has found distinct cross-cultural differences in the use of the increasingly popular emoji images used in text messaging and other digital communication. LaCount ...

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When graphic designer Yang Liu moved from Beijing to Berlin at age 13, she found herself in culture shock. “I discovered — almost on a daily basis — that things were quite the contrary of what I was ...

Some of the differences are truly remarkable (White, 2020). Africans who grow up in rural villages are much less susceptible to the Müller-Lyer illusion than Europeans who grow up in cities. The ...