Intercultural Relationships, Migrant Women, and Intersection of Identities

TL;DR: The authors argued that cultural customs and motivations, especially the motivation for achievement, are the major catalysts of economic growth and proposed a plan to accelerate economic growth in developing countries by encouraging and supplementing their achievement motives through mobilizing the greater achievement resources of developed countries.

TL;DR: The Grand Inquisitor and Free Association and the Grand Inquisitor: A Psychoanalytic Drama as discussed by the authors is an example of a psychoanalytical drama with a feminist ethical ethic of care.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the tendency to think of women's agency and programme endpoints in terms of individual actions, such as reporting violent men or leaving violent relationships, whilst neglecting the interlocking social, economic and cultural contexts that make such actions unlikely or impossible, results in a poor fit between policy and interventions to reduce intimate partner violence and women's lives.

TL;DR: The long-term effects of a theory-based intervention designed to help parents convey the importance of mathematics and science courses to their high-school–aged children demonstrate that a motivational intervention with parents can have important effects on STEM preparation in high school, as well as downstream effects onSTEM career pursuit 5 y later.

TL;DR: A positive secular growth change has been present in the past 42 y for children, adolescents, and young adults of Dutch origin, although at a slower rate in the last 17 y.

TL;DR: Empirical research shows that a benign experience of repetition can in and of itself enhance positive affect, and that such affect can become attached not only to stimuli that have been exposed but also to similar stimulus that have not been previously exposed, and to totally distinct stimuli as well.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors meta-analyzed two major international data sets, the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and the Programme for International Student Assessment, representing 493,495 students 14-16 years of age, to estimate the magnitude of gender differences in mathematics achievement, attitudes and affect across 69 nations throughout the world.

TL;DR: Sex and age were the main determinants of the total number of neurons in the human neocortex, whereas body size, per se, had no influence on neuron number.