PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Shifting Cultivation, Ingroups And Outgroups, Cognitive Test
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National media coverage of jap/american olympic athletes of olympics. Japanese and american athletes tended to explain perf in ways that contrasted with each other. Exercise reveals extent of culture"s influence on ppl"s identities: superficially, ex. I"m a canucks fan: cultural products, culture is merely providing content about ways people think of themselves, and in a way much deeper, structure wise, reveals specific kind of understanding about ourselves, ex. I"m creative: abstract, stable, can exist by itself, suggest a variety of ways that we think about ourselves, ex. I"m a younger brother: degree to which people view themselves in these 2 separate ways varies significantly across cultures, some encourage ppl to focus on enduring inner attributes, to understand themselves, others encourage to focus on relations. Kenyans and americans: kenya: divided sample into groups varied in terms of how much they were exposed to. American pattern of emphasis on personal chars emerged in other western cultures.
