Cross-Cultural Research between Mongolia, Japan, and Canada on Perception and Cognition: Comparing Historically Nomadic-Pastoral vs Sedentary Societies

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Masuda, Takahiko

• SSHRC IG awarded 2023: Existing cultural psychology literature suggests variations in psychological processes between East Asians and North Americans under the rubric of independent vs. interdependent social orientation. However, scholars have called for the necessity of globalizing research sites beyond the East vs. West dichotomy. To enrich the cultural database, the proposed project examines the psychological processes of Mongolians and contrasts them with Japanese and Canadians of European Descent, who belong to sedentary societies. Using a series of empirical studies in Japan, Canada, and urban and rural Mongolia, this research aims to investigate important cultural differences in perception (visual attention) and cognition (levels of self-assertion, and patterns of emotional experiences, human inference, causal attribution, and categorization).

• Date created

  2022-10-29

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Grant
  • IG
  • SSHRC
  • Culture
  • Cognition
  • Attention
  • Psychology
  • Japanese
  • Canadians of European Descent
  • Mongolians
  • Nomadic Pastoral Lifestyle
  • Sedentary Lifestyle
  • Canada
  • Japan
  • United States

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-cgke-zh75

• License

  ©️Masuda, Takahiko. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2031.