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Title: Intelligence across cultures Research in Africa, Asia and Latin America is showing how culture and intelligence interact Author: Etienne Benson Date Published: February 2003 Why Relevant and Summary: Covers great studies and clearly explains findings How This Influenced My Thinking: Confirmed what I believe about measuring intelligence Credibility of Source: Extremely

Title: Intelligence across cultures Author: Etienne Benson Date Published: Feb 2003 Why Relevant and Summary: This site is relevant because it opened my eyes and allowed me to see what different cultures definition of intelligence is, as well as what they value as intelligence. How This Influenced My Thinking: This influenced my thinking by providing me with insight on how other cultures operate and what they feel is important. It was interesting to compare and contrast what we in the US value as intelligence with what other cultures value. Credibility of Source: very credible

Title: Intelligence Across Cultures Author: ETIENNE BENSON Date Published: 2003 Why Relevant & Summary: This article explores how intelligence is perceived differently across different cultures. How this influenced my thinking: This gave real world examples of intelligences worldwide Credibility of Source: 6/ American Psychological Association

Title: Cosleeping Around The World Author:James J. McKenna, Ph.D. Date Published: No Date Why Relevant and Summary: This webpage is very helpful if one is doing their Assignment on Co-sleeping It gives examples of countries who practice co-sleeping which involves the majority of the countries including the United States. Many people believe Americans don't practice co-sleeping but research shows that many Americans do. How This Influenced My Thinking: This webpage definitely helped me be more open about other cultures. I believed that only Latino families practiced co-sleeping, but it turns out that the majority of the world practices co-sleeping. Credibility of Source: This source seems credible due to the references that were used

Title: Co-sleeping around the world Author: James J. Makenna Date Published:ND Why Relevant and Summary: This website was relevant to the subject i was writing about because it discussed co-sleeping across different cultures. It also talked about why co-sleeping is beneficial, what cultures favor it, and even provided a few statistics of the benefits of co-sleeping, and how common it is in the United States. How This Influenced My Thinking: This website didn't influence my thinking much because it spoke very highly of co-sleeping and i am already an advocate of it. Credibility of Source: The site seems credible because the information was backed with references.

Title: Cosleeping Around The World Author: James J. McKenna, Ph.D. Date Published: 2007 Why Relevant and Summary: This is a wonderful article about some of the cultures that practice co-sleeping. One mark down for brevity. How This Influenced My Thinking: I had no idea that what I did naturally was a thing of controversy. I am glad that other cultures, including our own, practice co-sleeping. Credibility of Source: Very high

Title : Struggle for Smarts? How Eastern and Western Cultures Tackle Learning Author : Ali Spiegel Date : 11/12/2012 Link : http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle-for-smarts-how-eastern-and-western-cultures-tackle-learning Why Relevant and Summary: Points out a big difference between Eastern and Western cultures regarding intelligence and learning. Eastern cultures believe that struggling through a problem is "good" and shows emotional strength. They believe intelligence is something that anyone can obtain through hard work and persistence. Western culture tends to view intelligence as innate. And if you have to struggle at something, then you're simply not good at it, and that's that. How This Influenced My Thinking: Once this was pointed out to me, it seemed very apparent to me. Considering I grew up with an Asian mom and many Asian friends, I felt that this generalization held some truth to it.

Title: Cultural Intelligence - What's your CQ? Date Published: October 30, 2009 Author: John Abele Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it talks about the intelligence as a culture. It is also known as Cultural Intelligence, this blog post gives a scenario about the cultural Intelligence and how difficult it is for some people to adapt to change. How This influenced My thinking: it made me realize that not every culture is able to adapt to the intelligence of others because they hold such a high standard of living and can simply not adapt to the environment that was thrown at them. Credibility: It was posted by the Co-Founder Boston Scientific Corporation and Owner, Kingbridge Conference Centre and Institute

Title: About CQ (Cultural Intelligence) Date Published: n.d. Author: no author Why Relevant and Summary: This is relevant because it talks about how cultural Intelligence is an individual capability.This means it is not an aspect of personality or personal interests. It is a set of capabilities that leads to specific outcomes - such as decision making, performance, and adjustment in culturally diverse settings. How This influenced My thinking: by helping me understand cultural intelligence Credibility: Its from the cultural intelligence center

Title: Breastfeeding Across Cultures Author: Keith Goetzman Date: 8/11/2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This just gives an example of the difference between cultures on the topic of breastfeeding in public, or just breastfeeding in general. This gives an example of Mongolian cultural differences. How This Influenced my Thinking: It showed me how different cultures vary, and how something labeled as "taboo" in our culture is completely normal for another.

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author: Jonathan Montgomery Date: 03-28-2011 title: Teaching Cultural Intelligence Could Provide Advantages In Job Market Why relevant and summary: Cultural intelligence is another aspect of intelligence that we discussed in the class which is worth pursuing and very valuable to us. Especially in this global market where we trade with partners from all over the world, having an understanding of their culture and background better prepares us to make sound decisions. For those who study abroad gives them a great advantage to thrive and not feel outcasted and socially neglected. How this has influenced my thinking: I was not aware that CI was being studied and promoted and I think it is a great idea for our children to develop. Credibility: This article was published on The Huffington Post which is a pretty reliable online newspaper.

Title: Childbirth in Other Cultures Author: Jennifer Vanderlaan Date Published: January 24, 2012 Why Relevant and Summary: Introduces and explains the differing views and methods of childbirth in different cultures. Provides each cultures beliefs and history of beliefs regarding childbirth and customs for it. How This Influenced My Thinking: Informed me of other perceptions and views of childbirth--things I was unaware of; I was not familiar with any other views of childbirth but that of the U.S.'s. Credibility of Source: Unsure of credibility.

Title: Breastfeeding and Human Lactation Author: Jan Riordan Date Published: 1998 Why Relevant and Summary: This ebook is very relevant because it discusses how different culutres choose to breastfeed or not and how other cultures can determine if they will breastfeed or not. This ebook gets more in detail but from my reading (pgs. 716-719) it covers background information and provide examples on which culture breastfeed why or why not. How This Influenced My Thinking: This has influence my thinking because I subconsciously didn't realized why most people didn't breast feed besides it just being a trend. Credibility of Source: This is credible because it is a published book.

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Title:Childbirth in Other Cultures Author:Jennifer Vanderlaan & Birthing Naturally Date Published: 2000-2011 Why Relevant and Summary: Its relevant because it talks about what other cultures believe when it comes to childbirth How This Influenced My Thinking: It didn't influence my thinking Credibility of Source: It seems credible

Title: Cultural differences among birthing women Author: Brenda Lane Date Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Informative article that explains cultural differences in the birthing process including support system and who is involved in the process. Gives great examples across different cultures. How This Influenced My Thinking: Made me realize that there are different views on how a child should be birthed i always thought that the father has to be present no matter what in the process. This is not the case among people of other cultures. Credibility of Source: Medium.

Title: Sleeping with Me: A Trans- cultural look at the power and protection of sharing a bed Author: Meredith F. Small, professor of anthropology at Cornell University. Date Published: 1998 Why Relevant and Summary: This excerpt from her book gives a well-documented, highly researched view of co-sleeping in the United States and many other countries and cultures. How This Influenced My Thinking: This influences my thinking by giving scientific research and strong cultural beliefs about the subject of co-sleeping Credibility of Source: Highly credible

Title: The Construction of Intelligence in Terms of Cultural Differences between East and West Author: Elif Aslan Bulut Date Published: 2008 Why Relevant and Summary: This article covers the concept of intelligence among different cultures, worldwide. How This Influenced My Thinking: This article helped to support my belief that intelligence is based on the dominant culture's values. Credibility of Source: 7/ All sources are cited at the end of the article.

Title: The Cultural Art of Breastfeeding Author: Cynthia Good Mojab, MS Date Published: October-November 2000 Why Relevant and Summary: While this article is from a pro-breastfeeding site, there is a ton of info about the culture of breastfeeding. It covers both biological and cultural aspects. How This Influenced My Thinking: I never thought about how the lack of breastfeeding in the family would influence a new mom. Credibility of Source: The La Leche League is the Pro-Breastfeeding place to go. I find this source extremely credible.

Title:Dr. Spock: Cultural Differences in Parenting Author: Dr. Benjamin Spock Date:n.d Why relevant and summary: This article is an excerpt from Dr. Spock's book and he gives insight on the role of parents and culture in a child's life. How has this influenced my thinking: It convinces me more that we should raise our children not only as individuals who should strive to make themselves better and successful but also to feel as members of the society and its contributors. Why credible: This is an excerpt from a published book.

Title:Parenting Styles in a Cultural Context: Observations of ''Protective Parenting'' in First-Generation Latinos Author:Rodriguez, m. et al Date Published:2009 Why Relevant and Summary:Looks at latino parenting stlyes through the lense of Baumrind's styles and concepts How This Influenced My Thinking: It made me realize that certain cutures like the latin american culture might have trouble using Baumrind's concepts might not hold water in other cultures because they have a diferent interpretation and measurement of responsiveness and demandingness. Credibility of Source:High licensed psychologists

Title: Childbirth and Culture Author: Emily Wehby Date Published: N/D Why Relevant and Summary: Because it talks about childbirth in different cultures. How This Influenced My Thinking: Many detailed information on a lot of things I didn't know about different cultures. Credibility of Source: Seems credible because it has many different sources backing it up.

Title:12 Ways to Give Birth Author:BabyZone Editors Date: nd Why relevant and summary: this website gives the reader 12 different ways of childbirth and briefly summarizes them. Although its helpful when deciding on what types of childbirths to use it does not go into too much detail about each of the methods.

Title: 12 ways to give birth Why relevant and summary: This website discusses 12 different way to give child birth and what is involved with each of these ways. It is relevant to "child birth and culture" because it goes over different methods of birth that not only American cultures use, but other cultures as well. There is a lot of interesting information that is provided in the website and it's also very insightful. author: Baby zone editors Date published: ND How this influenced my thinking: This article really opened my eyes to various types of child birth and the pros and cons that each one has. I had never really considered any other type of birth besides medicated birth in a hospital, but it was very interesting to read about the benefits of water birth. Credibility of source: The source seems to be credible. It was written by the editors of Disney.

Title: Childhood Development in the Hispanic Culture Author: unkown Date Published:May 11, 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: It's relevant because it focuses on what the Hispanic culture finds as important when it comes to parenting a toddler, and their styles of parenting. How This Influenced My Thinking: This helped back-up my ideas. Credibility of Source: It seems credible. It has all the sources and links they used on the bottom of the page, as well as on the images and videos used.

Title:Japan:values, proverbs and language Author:Kristina Lazos, Elizabeth Donnellon, Corey McConnell Date published:2001 Why relevant and summary:This page is relevant because it discusses the Japanese culture. The Japanese see the elderly and ancestors as being wise. The elderly hold knowledge that is valuable for future generations. How this influenced my thinking:It's amazing to see how much the Japanese respect their elders and ancestors. They hold great knowledge which is necessary to pass on to the next generations. Credibility of source:It is from an education site.