Silence in Japanese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom is a culturally and socially mediated phenomenon that challenges Western pedagogical assumptions equating verbal participation with ...

Japanese-born journalist celebrates a decade of bringing international perspective to Florida's local storytelling PALM ...

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 ...

As the American workplace has become increasingly multicultural and business more international, cross-cultural communications have become a big topic. Companies today must pay more attention to the ...

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 ...

Why do so many global projects falter? Often, it isn’t because executives misread market data or underestimate competitors; it’s because they misread each other. Cross‑cultural communication is less ...

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 ...