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Culture and Decision: Cross-Cultural Similarities and Variations in Resource Allocation between European Canadians and East Asians
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People engage in a variety of decision making tasks in daily life, in which people’s experiences and strategies during the decision making tasks are affected by cultural influences. The primary objective of this dissertation was to examine the role of analytic versus holistic thinking styles on...
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Culture and the Complex Environment: Comparing the Complexity Difference between East Asians and North Americans
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Previous cultural research found that East Asian pictorial representations (e.g., paintings) contained more elements than North American ones, and that East Asians were more likely than North Americans to prefer context-rich information to context-impoverished information (Miyamoto, Nisbett, &...
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How Salience of Consistency Norms Affects Individual Differences in Ambivalent Answering in North Americans
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Previous studies have found a positive relationship between trait dialecticism and ambivalent answering (Church et al., 2012; Hamamura et al., 2008). The current study explored how this relationship is affected for situational personality tests after manipulating the saliency of consistency norms...
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Influence of Cultural Contexts on Daily Stress Experiences: Perception of Interpersonal vs. Non-Interpersonal Situations among European Canadian and Japanese Undergraduate Students
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Daily stress experiences are significantly shaped by how people appraise and react to situations. While cultural psychologists suggest that people from different cultures interpret and react to situations differently based on their self-construal (how the self is defined in terms of an...
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The relations between sleeping arrangements, and cultural values and beliefs in first generation Chinese immigrants in Canada
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between cultural values, social norms, and beliefs related to co-sleeping with the sleeping arrangements of first generation Chinese immigrants in Canada. The participants were 162 first generation Chinese immigrants from four Canadian cities...
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Spring 2011
Previous works suggest that North Americans perceive visual information more analytically while East Asians perceive visual information more holistically. However, salient objects are also known to naturally attract human attention. Current studies examined to what extent culture influences...