Societal Change and Values in Arab Communities in Israel: Intergenerational and Rural–Urban Comparisons

This study tested and extended Greenfield’s theory of social change and human development to adolescent development in Arab communities in Israel undergoing rapid social change. The theory views sociodemographic changes—such as contact with an ethnically diverse urban setting and spread of technology—as driving changes in cultural values. In one research design, we compared three generations, high school girls, their mothers, and their grandmothers, in their responses to value-assessment scenarios. In a second research design, we compared girls going to high school in an ethnically diverse city with girls going to school in a village. As predicted by the theory, a t test and ANOVA revealed that both urban life and membership in the youngest generation were significantly related to more individualistic and gender-egalitarian values. Regression analysis and a bootstrapping mediation analysis showed that the mechanism of change in both cases was possession of mobile technologies

The Role of Assent in Article 2 and Article 9

After briefly reviewing the history of consumer protection in the UCC and its revisions, this Article analyzes the approaches of proposed revisions to Articles 2 and 9 with a focus on the assent necessary for apparent agreement to become binding on consumers in sales and secured transactions

Culture in Psychology: Then and Now

My “then” is the first IACCP (International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology) meeting in Hong Kong, 1972, which I attended. I take the “now” mainly from the 2014 IACCP meeting in Reims and a little from our 2013 IACCP regional meeting in Los Angeles. In general, I will speak of changes that have been very important and positive for the field. IACCP has both driven and responded to these changes

To The Editor

I write as an anthropologist who has been doing research in Brazil, other parts of South America and the Caribbean for the past three decades. After learning many years ago from colleagues in Brazil and the media about some of the rather unusual and at times spectacular healing done there, referred to by some as paranormal, I started to investigate healers, systems ofhealing and the patients receiving the healing intensively. After observing dozens of healers and interviewing hundred of their patients, I find it difficult to deny that something positive is happening that science in general and medical science in particular--as we know them-are not able to explain at this time. However, I must urge those who are generating possible explanatory hypotheses, often based on limited clinical or experimental data collected in our own society, to be cautious. Hypotheses, ofcourse, are necessary, but science further requires carefully designed experiments to test, or, in Popper's sense, falsifY them. Given what anthropologists have learned about the ways human behavior is differentially shaped and patterned by diverse cultures, I further urge that not only carefully designed protocols necessary to test hypotheses, but that these protocols must include variables to control for cultural diversity