PSYC 332 Lecture : PSYC 332 - Intro to Personality
8 Oct 2011
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Experiment: students japanese or american, write 20 diff sentences abt yourself (do it 4 diff times in diff settings: alone, classroom group, friend, professors office) People completed the self description in 4 contexts: american students descriptions were highly similar regardless of the context. Japanese great deal of variability, context mattered in terms of how they thought of themselves/described themselves. Fundamental difference is usually captured with these 2 terms. Key differences between independent and interdependent self construals. Ability to adjust, maintain harmony with social context. Key distinction btwn the 2, is the way we conceive and conceptualized the self. Individ more likely you will focus on the self being independent and separate. Collect more likely to highlight that the self is interdependent. Basis of self esteem varies a lot of evidence ppl from eastern cultures, typically will score dramatically lower so that people form japan or india will score 2 or 3 points lower on self esteem than western samples.
