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Cross Cultural Study On Creativity: How Do Croatian Working Professionals And Emirati Working Professionals Conceptualize Creativity?, Alice Almer
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Living in very dynamic and uncertain times, we can witness the power and the necessity of utilizing creativity and innovation as they can provide solutions to complex problems. However, how we see and define creativity is influenced by many factors, and culture is one of them. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of culture on creativity conceptualization. Specifically, the objective was to find out whether the working professionals of Croatia and the working professionals of the United Arab Emirates view creativity differently. In order to investigate this, a cross-sectional study involving 109 participants from Croatia and …
Cultural Differences And Conceptualizing Creativity, Rima Musa Ashour
Cultural Differences And Conceptualizing Creativity, Rima Musa Ashour
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Culture has been shown to impact the way people understand and evaluate creativity. Every day people encounter products, services, and processes; some are considered creative, and others are not. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between culture and implicit theories of creativity of products and processes. The study was conducted on UAE professional citizens who have at least three years of work experience and live in UAE. Surveys were used as the data collection method, and were applied on a final sample of 98 Emiratis. The study surveyed 26 creativity cues as the dependent variables. Results …
Addressing Sexual Assault: How Architectural Design Can Promote Life Long Healing, Diana Heliotis
Addressing Sexual Assault: How Architectural Design Can Promote Life Long Healing, Diana Heliotis
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The Trauma of any origin can forever alter the way individuals live their everyday lives. Relationships with people, places, and the self are compromised and may never fully heal. Generally, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is a globally accepted condition, with many great strides being made to provide centers of continual healing to those who suffer from it. The two most common demographics that are clinically diagnosed with PTSD are military Veterans and survivors of sexual assault. Where there is a lot of research and active development towards establishing treatments in combination with spacial and architectural design for Veterans, there is virtually …