PSYC14H3 Study Guide - Ingroups And Outgroups, Barter, Whenu Savenow
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Two athletes won the gold medal in two different countries but they both explained the reason for their victory differently. In a study it was shown that americans and japanese have contrasting ways of when explaining their victory. Americans focused more on how their performance reflected their own personal characteristics, whereas japanese focused on how their performance was guided by expectations of others. Nature of ourselves strongly influences the ways we perceive and interact with our social worlds. Twenty statements test is a well-used measure of the self-concept. It might only reveal superficial because it is merely providing the content about the ways we think of ourselves; people can appear highly similar across experiences and vary just by content. Deeper: this one is harder to detect, this influence isn"t seen so much in the content of the statements as in their structure.
