Japan Intercultural Institute

Society EN ↓ 50 episodes

A podcast that explores the psychological impact of intercultural experiences, informed by the sciences of brain, culture and mind. We look at the personal growth that can come from—travel, working and living abroad, immigrating, learning a foreign language—and the challenges of bridging different cultural worlds.

Author

Japan Intercultural Institute

Episodes

Episode 44 – Gender and Culture: Expectations 15.05.2024 37:59

Proxemics–Your Space or Mine? 15.04.2024 32:53

Episode 42 – Cultural Intuitions and the Feel-good Fallacy 15.03.2024 30:06

Episode 41 – Motivation and Culture 15.02.2024 31:20

Episode 40 – Cultural Explorer Franz Boas 15.01.2024 31:06

Episode 39 – Culture and the Unconscious Mind 18.12.2023 33:09

Episode 38 – Transformation and the Road Less Traveled 15.11.2023 37:32

Episode 37 – Tagore, Empathy and the Other 15.10.2023 36:17

Episode 36 – Edward Hall Ahead of His Time 15.09.2023 31:48

Episode 35 – Re-run: Rubber Time or Slaves to the Clock? 16.08.2023 32:19

Episode 34 – Thoughts on Season 3 16.07.2023 36:20

Episode 33 – Stereotypes! 14.06.2023 37:04

Episode 32 – What is Intercultural Competence? 15.05.2023 43:00

Episode 31 – Values 16.04.2023 37:50

Episode 30 – Ethnocentrism 15.03.2023 36:19

Episode 29 – Culture and Emotion 15.02.2023 32:41

Episode 28 – The Complexity of Culture 14.01.2023 31:57

Episode 27 – Are you a Global Citizen? 15.12.2022 33:36

Episode 26 – The Trouble With Cultural Difference 15.11.2022 35:12

Joseph Shaules and Yvonne van der Pol explore why it can be so hard to talk about culture and measure cultural difference. They discuss three ways of looking at culture . . . as being , doing , and seeing . They discuss “classic” research into cultural difference (e.g. Hofstede) and argue that brain-mind sciences are shedding new light on cultural difference and can help us make better sense of ou...

Episode 25 – My Comfort Zone 16.10.2022 31:01

Episode 24 – Are you WEIRD? 15.09.2022 32:36

Episode 23 – Best of Season 2 15.07.2022 31:48

Episode 22 – Culture and the Self 15.06.2022 31:28

Episode 21 – Culture in the Cradle 15.05.2022 31:32

Episode 20 – What makes home a home? 17.04.2022 29:39