PSY430H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mood Disorder, Reuptake, Individualism
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I. e. its all about the situation then argued that the effect of the situation is much greater in the east rather than the west. No evidence that any of this is true. Modern day now we are looking how personality is influenced (we know perosnality exists and is real the question is about the influence) by culture. Comparing national personalities can show the effects of culture on personality. Individualistic culktures appear to be correlated with better characteristics of nations. Canadians, puerto ricans, germans, indians, chinese (correct order) The scale is 0-100 (they all scored around 50) so while culutre does matter its not as big as we think (stereotyping)e3. Diseases more in east (or at least less health care). Culture influence perosnality (two reasoons above) (culture) Increased exposure to canadian culutre results in an increase in the correaltion to extraversion and openness (moving from colelctivist to individualistic culture)
