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  • Courtesy of Constantine Sedikides

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  • ... it is a mistake to consider the processes
  • in social psychology as basic in the
  • natural science sense. Rather, they
  • may largely be considered the psychological
  • counterpart of cultural norms.
  • Gergen, 1973

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INHERENT PROBLEMS
  • Research on Culture
  • Did not define or operationalise the construct
    well
  • Compared countries rather than cultures
  • Used limited methodological repertoire
  • Was plagued by measurement
  • equivalency problems
  • Hence Could not explain adequately
    between-culture differences

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BREAKTHROUGH
  • Focus on
  • a particular dimension of culture
  • as experienced subjectively by members
  • Dimension
  • Individualism - Collectivism
  • (Hofstede, 1980 Triandis, 1990)
  • Theory of
  • Independent vs. Interdependent Self-Construals
  • (Markus Kitayama, 1991)

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THEORY OFINDEPENDENT VS. INTERDEPENDENTSELF-CO
NSTRUALS
  • Assumptions
  • Culture influences individual self-construals
  • Self-construals influence individual functioning

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  • WESTERN
    EASTERN
  • CULTURE
    CULTURE
  • . . . . . .
    . . . . . .
  • USA JAPAN
  • UK INDIA
  • CANADA CHINA
  • AUSTRALIA PHILIPINNES
  • GERMANY INDONESIA

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  • WEST
  • The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
  • EAST
  • The nail that stands out gets pounded down.

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WESTERN CORPORATION, SEEKING TO ELEVATE
PRODUCTIVITY Look in the mirror and say I am
beautiful 100 times before coming to work each
day. EASTERN CORPORATION, SEEKING TO ELEVATE
PRODUCTIVITY Begin your day by holding hands
and telling each other that he or she is
beautiful.
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Propositions
  • Western culture
  • fosters independent self-construals
  • Imperative Individualistic

    be independent, unique, separate
  • Eastern culture
  • fosters interdependent self-construals
  • Imperative Collectivistic
    value
    cooperation, harmony, cohesion

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  • Empirical Evidence
  • Members of Western culture (Idiocentrics)
  • have inflated views of the self

  • manifest the self-serving bias
  • have unrealistically optimistic beliefs

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Empirical Evidence
  • Members of Eastern culture (Allocentrics)
  • do not have inflated self-views

  • do not manifest the self-serving bias
  • do not have unrealistically optimistic beliefs
  • self-efface

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Conclusions
  • Enhancement of individual self is not observed in
    Eastern culture
  • Allocentrics (Japanese) do not have a need for
    self-esteem
  • Heine, Lehman, Markus, Kitayama, 1999,
  • Psychological Review

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  • A REFORMULATION

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Culture Perspective
  • Need for Self-Enhancement
  • Highly prevalent in the West
  • Non-Existent in the East

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Culture PerspectiveNeed for Self-Enhancement
Not Universal
  • the empirical literature provides scant
    evidence for a need for positive self-regard
    among Japanese
  • the need for self-regard must be culturally
    variant
  • the need for self-regard is not universal,
    but rather rooted in significant aspects of North
    American culture
  • Heine, Lehman, Markus, Kitayama, 1998,
    Psychological Review, p. 766

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When Constraints are Lifted
  • What happens when contextual or cultural
    constraints are lifted (or substantially
    reduced)?
  • The case of Implicit Measures
  • Do Easterners NOT self-enhance on implicit
    measures?

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Counter-Evidence for Culture Perspective
Implicit Measures
  • Easterners
  • prefer own name letters and birthday dates
  • display strong self-positivity bias
  • in response latency or word stem completion
    tasks
  • score equally high with westerners on self-esteem
    IAT

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Conclusions
  • Allocentrics have a positive implicit self
  • But, how about explicit measures?
  • Why do Japanese not show self-enhancement on
    explicit measures?

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  • One of the necessary conditions for the
    formulation of universal theories and laws is
    that they be phrased in sufficiently abstract
    form as to allow for the insertion of specific
    objects, cases, places, events, and times as
    variables.
  • - Schlenker, 1974

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Self-Concept Enhancing Tactician Model
Universal Laws People have a fundamental need
to enhance the individual self to think
positively of the self to protect the
self People enhance the individual self on
personally important attributes
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  • Reformulation
  • Need for Self-Enhancement
  • Equally prevalent in West and East

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Lingering Questions
  • Why do allocentrics (Japanese) and idiocentrics
    (Americans) differ on explicit measures of
    self-enhancement?
  • Do Japanese and Americans enhance the self in
    different ways?

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Self-Concept Enhancing Tactician Model
  • Self-enhancement is tactical and opportunistic
  • People are skilled in recognising cultural norms
    or roles
  • People strive to fulfil these roles
  • People rate themselves positively on dimensions
  • that imply successful role fulfilment these
    dimensions are personally important

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  • Assumptions
  • Allocentrics (Japanese) personally value
  • collectivistic attributes
  • Idiocentrics (Americans) personally value
    individualistic attributes

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  • Predictions
  • Japanese will enhance the individual self on
    collectivistic attributes
  • Americans will enhance the individual self on
    individualistic attributes

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The Data
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Collectivistic Behaviours
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Individualistic Behaviours
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Collectivistic Traits
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Individualistic Traits
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  • Participants
  • - 40 American students
  • - 40 Japanese students
  • Had been away from Japan 2-22 months

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  • Procedure
  • Cultural immersion (10 min) - imagine, write
  • walking along the streets
  • experiencing the sights, listening to the sounds
  • eating in restaurants
  • being with friends, celebrating with family
  • Simulation of group-ness (10 min) - imagine,
    write
  • membership in 16-person business task-force
  • problems budgetary ,personnel, advertising,
    planning

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Self-Enhancement on Behaviours
  • How likely are you, relative to the
  • typical group member, to enact each
  • behaviour?
  • -5 much less than the typical group member
  • 0 about the same as the typical group member
  • 5 much more than the typical group member
  • (self superiority)

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Positive values reflect self-enhancement Negativ
e values reflect self-effacement
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Self-Enhancement on Traits
  • How well does each trait describe you
  • relative to the typical group member?
  • -5 much worse than the typical group member
  • 0 as well as the typical group member
  • 5 much better than the typical group member

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Positive values reflect self-enhancement Negativ
e values reflect self-effacement
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Assumptions
  • Interdependents value collectivistic attributes
  • Independents value individualistic attributes

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Predictions
  • Interdependents will self-enhance on
    collectivistic attributes
    (personally important)
  • Independents will self-enhance on individualistic
    attributes (personally
    important)

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  • Session I
  • 206 participants
  • Singelis (1994) self-construal scale
  • Participants divided into
  • Interdependents
  • high on interdependent items
  • low on independent items
  • Independents
  • high on independent items
  • low on interdependent items

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  • Session II
  • 48 Independents
  • 48 Interdependents
  • Procedure identical to Study I
  • Exception
  • How personally important is each ?
  • 1 extremely unimportant to me
  • 5 neither important nor unimportant to me
  • 9 extremely important to me

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Does Self-Construal Predict BehaviourSelf-Enhance
ment?
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Does Self-Construal Predict TraitSelf-Enhancement
?
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  • Universal Laws
  • Humans have a need to enhance the self
  • Humans enhance the self on personally important
    dimensions

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  • Japanese or Interdependents value collectivistic
    attributes
  • Americans or Independents value individualistic
    attributes

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  • Japanese or Interdependents self-enhance on
    collectivistic attributes
  • Americans or Independents self-enhance on
    individualistic attributes

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  • Clarifications
  • For Japanese Being a good self means being
    better than others on culturally-valued and,
    thus, personally-valued attributes
  • For Americans Being a good self means being
    better than others on culturally-valued and,
    thus, personally-valued attributes
  • Both strive to excel on culturally-prescribed or
    desirable dimensions
  • Personal importance a proxy for desirability
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