By detecting discrepancies between the predictions of a self-interested rationality model and actual experimental results, investigators are able to elicit phenomena that suggest differences in norms of fairness across different cultures.
Examples abounded of young expatriates having difficulties with cultural and language barriers, and with differences in norms and values, resulting from insufficient cultural sensitivity and awareness.
This explanation has a long history and originally focused on differences in norms and values and language of communication between science and policy.
The general treatment culture varies between the five INCANT countries because of differences in norms, social structures, and local and national policies.
Based on the male/female differences in norms regarding health and health care as discussed in the introduction, this study's results supports the authors' decision to differentiate the focus groups by gender.
12 14 16–18 Changes in SRH over time, on the one hand, may reflect changes in patterns of morbidity or, on the other hand, contextually determined differences in norms and expectations in relation to health, 13 27 and furthermore, may or may not suggest contextually determined changes in healthcare utilisation.
This is no methodological concern because research finds minor differences in CBCL norm group scores of countries whose norms were integrated in this meta-analysis (Chang et al. 1995; Verhulst et al. 2003).
Experimental studies of reaction norms often examine too few environmental conditions to fully distinguish between relevant differences in reaction norms, hence it is often difficult to objectively compare experimental data to these patterns (Izem and Kingsolver 2005).
In other words, to manage successfully in a global economy, one size does not fit all; a manager must be attuned to the differences in customs, norms and nuances of how things get done.
