Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the U.S. has its own quirky customs, other countries have traditions and behaviors that might make you raise an eyebrow or ...

Business interactions rely on communication. Cross-cultural business was once reserved for large corporations, but in today’s global economy, many small and medium-sized businesses face a critical ...

Empathy is a vital tool to communicate, collaborate and create with colleagues or customers from other cultures by overcoming cross-cultural barriers. Empathy—understanding how others feel—is ...

This post was written by Alison Fernandes, research affiliate at the Department of Psychology, Monk Prayogshala. Communication serves as the cornerstone of human interaction, intricately shaped by ...

We all grew up with certain ‘rules’ about how life works. These unwritten guidelines shape our behavior, relationships, and self-image without us even noticing. As adults, we have the chance to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Travel has a way of exposing assumptions people didn’t realize they were carrying. For many Americans, encountering everyday norms ...

Culture may or may not be a relevant factor in intercultural communications for people globally. In this study, Professor Stadler from Doshisha University examines the relevance of intercultural ...

It has been long established in the social sciences that different cultures can have vastly different methods of communication. This past summer, I spent six weeks interning for a multinational ...

We all have an internal list of those we still don't understand, let alone appreciate. We all have biases, even prejudices, toward specific groups. In our workshops we ask people to gather in pairs ...