Duality of independence and interdependence: An adaptationist perspective
We propose a new framework for understanding cultural differences in self‐construal by noting the duality of this construct. Based on the analysis of the adaptive roles of self‐construal, we predicted that a US–Japan difference in self‐construal exists in the contrast between self‐expression and rejection avoidance. We confirmed these predictions using newly constructed self‐construal scales. Compared to Japanese respondents, American respondents were higher on self‐expression and lower on rejection avoidance. Our findings regarding the contrast between distinctiveness of the self and harmony seeking, which a...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hirofumi Hashimoto, Toshio Yamagishi Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
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Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Susumu Yamaguchi Tags: Editorial Statement Source Type: research
To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third ‐party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members?
The present research seeks to answer the question of what determines an uninvolved third party's forgiveness attitudes toward conflicting groups' violent partisan members. Specifically, Bangladeshi participants read a fictitious interview with a radicalized Palestinian who declared his intention to avenge himself against Israelis for his personal and collective plight by carrying out a suicide bombing attack. Findings reveal that an empathy manipulation (high empathy = other focused or low empathy = objective focused) influenced participants' forgiveness attitudes towards the radicalized Palestinian such that in th...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - December 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Masi Noor, Sohela Nazneen Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Materialism lowers well ‐being: The mediating role of the need for autonomy – correlational and experimental evidence
While there is evidence from the self‐determination perspective for the mediation of basic needs satisfaction in the materialism–well‐being link, no research to date has attempted to examine the relative contribution of the three needs to the mediating effect. Given that the predictive value of psychological needs on well‐being depends upon the match between the need and life domains, in two studies we investigate the differential mediating role of all three needs in the negative relationship between materialism and well‐being. In study 1, 231 adult participants self‐reported their materialistic attitudes, basi...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tania Nagpaul, Joyce S. Pang Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Working together or separately? The role of identity and cultural self ‐construal in well‐being among Japanese youth
Young people develop a sense of personal identity during the transition to adulthood, a time when individuals choose and adhere to a specific set of goals, values, and beliefs. In addition, in many contemporary Asian societies, youth are expected to acquire and balance traditional and Western cultural views of the self — that is, independent and interdependent self‐construal. To understand the relationships between the personal and cultural facets of the transition to adulthood, this study examined (a) associations between personal identity and well‐being and (b) the possible moderating role of cultural self‐constr...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kazumi Sugimura, Reiko Nakama, Shinichi Mizokami, Kai Hatano, Manabu Tsuzuki, Seth J. Schwartz Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Emotion suppression in multiple social contexts and its effects on psychosocial functioning: An investigation with Chinese samples
The present study examines the psychosocial consequences of emotion suppression and the moderating effect of social context in the link between emotion suppression and psychosocial functioning with two samples of Chinese undergraduate students. Suppression of happiness and sadness in five social contexts (with family members, close friends, classmates, teachers and strangers) and psychosocial functioning were investigated. The results indicate that the general level of happiness suppression negatively predicted individuals' psychosocial functioning, while sadness suppression was positively associated with psychosocial func...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 30, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ting Zhou, Zhe Shang, Dengfeng Wang Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
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Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Determinants of pro ‐environmental consumption intention in rural China: The role of traditional cultures, personal attitudes and reference groups
This study aimed to identify social‐psychological predictors of pro‐environmental consumption intention in rural China. To this end, a proposed conceptual model was tested by analyzing the survey data derived from 972 rural respondents in Jiangxi province in south‐eastern China. Results showed that the endorsement of traditional cultures (man–nature orientation and collectivism) was linked with pro‐environmental consumption behaviuor, but was mediated by intentions. Personal attitudes (environmental cognition and environmental affect) and reference groups influenced both intention and behaviour. The results also ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Xingdong Wang, Ming Tu, Rong Yang, Jinyong Guo, Zhimei Yuan, Wenxing Liu Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Effects of minimal social cues on trust in the investment game
In anonymous game tasks, individuals’ prosocial behaviour was shown to increase when those individuals were provided with social cues from a third party or bystander. It has been suggested that those social cues can be presented using a configuration suggestive of a face with ‘watching eyes’. This led us to question whether it was possible to provide the watching‐eyes configuration with even weaker facial information, such as a simple dot pattern. By using a minimal social cue paradigm, such as the one described above, the present research found that individuals’ trust toward the trustee increased when they detec...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ziqiang Xin, Youhui Liu, Zhixu Yang, Hongchuan Zhang Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Determinants of pro‐environmental consumption intention in rural China: The role of traditional cultures, personal attitudes and reference groups
This study aimed to identify social‐psychological predictors of pro‐environmental consumption intention in rural China. To this end, a proposed conceptual model was tested by analyzing the survey data derived from 972 rural respondents in Jiangxi province in south‐eastern China. Results showed that the endorsement of traditional cultures (man–nature orientation and collectivism) was linked with pro‐environmental consumption behaviuor, but was mediated by intentions. Personal attitudes (environmental cognition and environmental affect) and reference groups influenced both intention and behaviour. The results also ...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Xingdong Wang, Ming Tu, Rong Yang, Jinyong Guo, Zhimei Yuan, Wenxing Liu Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Do multicultural experiences facilitate global processing style?
The current research explores whether multicultural experiences facilitate global processing style. We conducted two experiments in which participants were exposed to either a multicultural experience or a monocultural experience. They were required to either perform the Navon letter task (Experiment 1) or search for similarities or differences between two videos (Experiment 2). The experimental results showed that, compared to the participants exposed to a monocultural experience, those exposed to a multicultural experience had faster reaction times to global letters (Experiment 1) and tended to search for similarities (E...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Minggang Wan, Yang Yang, Yuliang Liu, Jiansheng Li Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Meanings of the Hijab: Views of Canadian Muslim women
This study demonstrates the individualized phenomenological experiences of Muslim‐Canadian women through their relationships with head covering, most commonly known as the hijab. By conducting in‐depth interviews with ten women, five who cover and five who do not, we sought to understand their day‐to‐day experiences with covering, and how their interpretations of these experiences were related to them as individuals, as well as to broader social contexts. Through the use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, we found that the women's experiences can be regarded as an interplay between internal experience, th...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - June 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rashelle V. H. Litchmore, Saba Safdar Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Uncovering the diverse cultural bases of social identity: Ingroup ties predict self ‐stereotyping among individualists but not among collectivists
On what basis do people form their social identities? To investigate this issue, the present research investigates cross‐cultural differences in self‐stereotyping, a key outcome of social identification. In particular, the research tests the hypothesis that ingroup ties are a stronger predictor of self‐stereotyping among people from individualist cultures than among people from collectivist cultures. In Study 1, university students (N = 117) completed measures of ingroup ties and self‐stereotyping with respect to an intimacy group (family and friends). Consistent with predictions, ingroup ties significantly pre...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - April 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Mark Rubin, Milen Milanov, Stefania Paolini Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Physical pain induces negative person perception
We examined the hypothesis that pain increases negative person perception of irrelevant others in both medical and laboratory settings in three studies. Patients perceived a nurse as more negative if the injection they received from the nurse produced more pain (Pilot Study). Patients rated neutral faces as more negative after receiving an injection than before it (Study 1). Participants who performed a painful cold pressor task rated neutral faces as more negative than a control group, but this effect only appeared for those with low perceived social support (Study 2). These findings suggest that one's experience of physi...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - April 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wuming He, Siyuan Guo, Jing Jiang, Xinyue Zhou, Ding‐Guo Gao Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
Are East Asians happy to work more or less? Associations between working hours, relative income and happiness in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
This study analyzes data from the 2010 East Asian Social Survey to investigate these associations in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and is framed in a similar context as previous studies that utilize data from Western nations and through the lens of social comparison theory. Path analysis is used to model the associations between happiness and its predictors while taking correlations between the predictors into account. Results show that working hours are negatively associated with happiness in China, Japan and Taiwan, but such an association is not observed in South Korea. At the same time, relative income is signi...
Source: Asian Journal Of Social Psychology - March 31, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Takashi Yamashita, Anthony R. Bardo, Darren Liu Tags: Regular Article Source Type: research
