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"An interdisciplinary exploration of the various ways in which religion contributes to individual and social well-being"--

"In the last 3 decades, cultural psychology has come of age, and this remarkable volume celebrates that fact. The transition from a culture-blind psychology to a culture-contingent psychology has been a rocky one and is far from complete. Yet hundreds of experiments, simulations, surveys, and analyses of cultural products and practices now provide increasingly robust support for Geertz's (1973) assertion that "there is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture" (p. 49) as well as for Bruner's (1990) claim that "it is impossible to construct a human psychology on the basis of the individual alone" (p. 12). People, the essays collected here explain, require the public and shared meanings and practices of their various communities and activities to become people. Moreover, there is an ongoing mutual constitution between people and their many cultures. People are culturally shaped shapers. This is their human nature. This volume, then, will go a long distance in completing the cultural turn in psychology. The emphasis here is on how cultures make psyches but also on how psyches make culture. The word is out. Culture is not just something that East Asians have. Here we find culture in many forms. These cultures derive from the many social distinctions that organize and animate our lives- professions, social classes, gender, the frontier, politics, religion, generation, food. Each of us interacts with multiple cultures in a lifetime and in a single day. We are shaped by these cultures, and we shape them. Because of culture, people don't have to wait around for natural selection or genetic mutation to produce the biology to live in a different terrain or cope with a change in climate. Together we can invent new shelters and climate-appropriate clothing. Or we can save ourselves the trouble of innovating new technologies by copying our fellow humans (Markus & Conner, 2013). People's capacity to be shaped by the meanings that are pervasive in their environments, to make meaning, to share these meanings, and to build worlds according to these meanings is their great evolutionary advantage. This insightful and provocative collection offers the careful reader many gifts. It is an illuminating example of its own message: Cultures evolve. The knowledge culture of psychology is evolving and finally giving full expression to some of the field's most powerful foundational ideas. The book also illuminates why psychologists should focus their attention on the systematic collective antecedents and consequences of individual actions. Finally, Culture Reexamined invites us to think about ourselves and other people in a new way. No one has just one culture. We all have many different cultures--of nation, region, race, gender, class, religion, profession, and so forth. We can embrace these cultures and use them as resources; we can resist them; and since they are products of human agency, we can also change them"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

Shared ride services allow riders to share a ride to a common destination. They include ridesharing (carpooling and vanpooling); ridesplitting (a pooled version of ridesourcing/transportation network companies); taxi sharing; and microtransit. In recent years, growth of Internet-enabled wireless technologies, global satellite systems, and cloud computing - coupled with data sharing – are causing people to increase their use of mobile applications to share a ride. Some shared ride services, such as carpooling and vanpooling, can provide transportation, infrastructure, environmental, and social benefits. This paper reviews common shared ride service models, definitions, and summarises existing North American impact studies. Additionally, we explore the convergence of shared mobility; electrification; and automation, including the potential impacts of shared automated vehicle (SAV) systems. While SAV impacts remain uncertain, many practitioners and academic research predict higher efficiency, affordability, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The impacts of SAVs will likely depend on the number of personally owned automated vehicles; types of sharing (concurrent or sequential); and the future modal split among public transit, shared fleets, and pooled rides. We conclude the paper with recommendations for local governments and public agencies to help in managing the transition to highly automated vehicles and encouraging higher occupancy modes.

Although sport can serve as a valuable mechanism for social change, this does not imply it can single-handedly solve large-scale problems; rather, sport should be utilized with passionate leadership, efficient and innovative program design, and ancillary cultural enrichment activities to achieve optimal results. This research was motivated by developments in some marginalized and at-risk communities where several sport-for-development programs have started to incorporate music to enhance the appeal and impact of sport interventions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of hip-hop and sport by one sport-for-development program to educate and improve the lives of inner-city youth in Harlem. Data were collected by interviewing key stakeholders of the program, including participants, workshop leaders, staff, and upper-level executives along with onsite observations. Results of our investigation highlighted the cultural influence of music and sport within a local demographic and a sport-for-development initiative aimed to appeal to both local at-risk youth and key community stakeholders.

Abstract
Background
Symptom burden affects quality of life and prognosis in primary brain tumor (PBT) patients. Knowing whether symptom burden varies based on sex, race, or ethnicity may affect the interpretation of the relationship between symptoms and survival may reveal issues with applying the tools to measure symptom burden to different groups and may identify inequities in symptom management that need to be addressed at a system level. To determine whether symptoms in PBT patients vary across demographic groups, we conducted a retrospective chart review of symptom burden collected as part of routine care in a diverse population.

Methods
Patient demographics and scores on the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory-Brain Tumor (MDASI-BT) module were extracted from the electronic medical record for patients seen in the Inova Neuro-oncology Clinic between March 2021 and June 2022. MDASI-BT scores were compared based on side of tumor, sex, race, and ethnicity for the entire population and for the subset with gliomas.

Results
We included 125 people, of whom 85 had gliomas. For both the entire group and the subgroup with gliomas, about 40% were female and about 40% were non-White race. No differences in symptom burden were seen between males and females. Pain and numbness/tingling symptom burden were higher in both the entire population and the glioma subgroup for people of Hispanic/Latino/Spanish ethnicity and for people of races other than White or Middle Eastern self-identification.

Conclusions
Pain, weakness, and numbness/tingling varied significantly across racial and ethnic groups. Further research is needed to validate this finding in other populations and determine its cause.

AbstractIn both academic and policy contexts, two of the most widely researched and discussed diversity ideologies are multiculturalism (i.e., acknowledgment and celebration of group differences) and colorblindness (which can involve focusing on group similarities and characteristics of individuals instead of differences). However, both diversity ideologies have potential drawbacks, and their implications for intergroup contexts beyond race and ethnicity are not well understood. Given that the United States is becoming increasingly diverse in terms of religion, gender identity, and sexual orientation as well as race and ethnicity, we propose a "multiple forms" approach to diversity ideologies, particularly multiculturalism. We suggest that explicitly emphasizing the importance of many types of diversity may be beneficial for dominant and non‐dominant group members and for institutions and organizations more broadly. In this article, we present an overview of the "multiple forms" approach and what it would entail, review empirical evidence supporting its potential effectiveness, discuss the psychological and legal advantages and challenges involved in implementing such an approach, and offer concrete policy recommendations for doing so.

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In 2017, researchers from UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center and Institute of Transportation Studies produced eight policy briefs on shared mobility. Shared mobility – the shared use of a vehicle, bicycle, or other travel mode – services are experiencing rapid growth and expansion. This is, in part, due to the launch of innovative business models across California, and their use of the smartphone as a way to enable on-demand transportation options. There is a need to clarify emerging terms and best practices for policymakers amidst the fast-paced developments of the field. Fluency in data sharing opportunities and standards, funding options, and equity considerations will be needed to implement flexible, forward-thinking policies. These topics are covered in the briefs that follow. Each brief includes a presentation of research findings, description of the research approach, and recommendations for the California Legislature. Policymakers and legislatures can refer to these briefs for digestible explanations of research findings and suggestions of ways to apply research to improve California's transportation system