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Society and Culture

Edited by: Dr. Dan Landis

Society and Culture at SpringerPlus is a high quality collection of peer reviewed articles describing all aspects of local and global community research, as well as articles which communicate intercultural comparisons.

This Collection forms the second chapter of the Topics in Intercultural Research Open Access Series.

SpringerPlus holds an all-inclusive scope; if the Collection Editor considers your manuscript to be out of scope for the Collection, you may receive the option to be considered for publication in one of the general Sections of SpringerPlus.

This Collection follows all SpringerPlus-wide publication policies, including stringent peer review.

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Meet the Editor

Dr. Landis (Ph.D., General-theoretical Psychology, Wayne State University, 1963) is Affiliate Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii (Hilo and Manoa campuses), Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Director Emeritus, Center for Applied Research and Evaluation, University of Mississippi and President, D.K. Research and Consultation Group. He is a past Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Mississippi, Chair of Psychology at Indiana University–Purdue University at Indianapolis and Founder of the Center for Social Development at the University City Science Center in Philadelphia.

Dr. Landis is the author/co-author of over 100 books, articles, technical reports and presentations in areas such as, the measurement of equal opportunity climate in military and other organizations, racial discrimination, perception, statistics, sexual behavior and attitudes, and cross-cultural psychology and training. He is the founding and continuing editor of the International journal of intercultural relations, the co-editor/author of Ethnic conflict (Sage, 1985) and the co-editor/author of Handbook of intercultural training, a three-volume work published by Pergamon Press in 1983. The second edition of the Handbook of Intercultural Training edited by Landis and Bhagat was published in 1996 and a third edition (edited by Landis, Janet Bennett, and Milton Bennett) appeared in 2004.

Submission Instructions

If your manuscript meets the aims and scope of this individual Collection, please first follow all of the SpringerPlus Submission Guidelines.

During submission, at the "Additional Information" section, please select that you are submitting to an Article Collection, and choose “Society and Culture” from the list.


Collection Articles:

  1. Although eco-labels were introduced with the intention of encouraging eco-friendly purchasing behavior by consumers, they have had little effect on consumers’ purchasing decisions, and therefore a significant ...

    Authors: Jung-Ah Hwang, Youkyoung Park and Yeonbae Kim
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1915
    Content type: Research Published on:

  4. To estimate additional total cost and average cost of integrating the demand-based reproductive health commodity model into the existing Government and NGO facilities in Bangladesh. Activity based cost analysi...

    Authors: Ziaul Islam, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Shahela Anwar, Humayun Kabir and Rukhsana Gazi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:808
    Content type: Research Published on:

  5. Recent political events in the United States have created a political climate that promotes prejudice against Middle Eastern, Iranian, and Muslim people. In this study, we were interested in investigating two ...

    Authors: Shari Paige, Elaine Hatfield and Lu Liang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2015 4:747
    Content type: Research Published on: