Mood, Meta-Mood, and Empathy

online-successOverview of Measuring People´s experience in a wide variety of subjective experiences related to emotion and mood.
•Mood concerns an individual's long term emotional states.
•Meta-mood (also known as meta-experience or reflective experience of mood) concerns a person's thoughts and feelings about his or her mood(s).
•Emotional empathy refers to the understanding and responsiveness to another person's emotional experience.

.

Intercultural Communication Index

PDI (Power Distance Index) - the PDI score relates to the degree of equality or inequality between people in a country's society. A high PDI score indicates that inequalities of power and wealth exist in a country where as in low scoring countries there is more social equality.

.

Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance etc

Individualism is one of the five intercultural dimensions developed by Hofstede. In short this cultural dimension looks at how much a culture emphasises the rights of the individual versus those of the group (whether it be family, tribe, company, etc).Individualist cultures include the United States and much of Western Europe, where personal achievements are emphasised.  .

Introduction

Why inter-Cultural Communication?-The importance of multi, cross, or Intercultural Communication in our modern society is unequivocal: One of the key changes our globalised World has brought about is the need to communicate effectively with different cultures-euroafrica-networkpeople in different languages and from different cultures. It is now recognised that linguistic and cultural knowledge are two of the most vital areas of knowledge that organisations and individuals must acquire if they are to integrate, progress and succeed in the present world economy. Cross cultural communication is a must!  The topic of intercultural competence became more and more important during the past years: The unavoidable increased Globalisation and worldwide interaction of people, goods and services, has placed a hitch free, multi-cultural, communication on a high demand listing.

.