PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes -Impression Management, Great Privilege, Exploratory Testing
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Linkage studies: linkage studies studies that attempt to measure an aspect of culture theoretically hypothesized to produce cultural differences and then empirically link that measured aspect of culture iwht the dependent variable of interest, unpackaging studies. Iciai assesses context-specific ic tendencies in interpersonal situations e. g. american and japanese cultural differences in judgements of emotions differed in how strongly they perceived facial expressions of emotion. Ic had moderate effects on self-concept and relationally and large effects on attributions and cognitive styles: self-construal scales scales for measuring independence and interdependence on the individual level. 2 concerns: concern is whether the samples are appropriate representatives of their culture e. g. corss-cultural comparison between people from seattle and. Catholic in japan refers to whether the research items on questionnaires, instructions etc. are semantically equivalent across the various languages. Interpretational bias: analyzing data just because differences are statistically significant, does not mean that there is a meaningful difference between the groups.
