Language and the Bicultural Self

By Bicultural Self, M. Ross, W. Xun, A. Wilson, W. Laurier. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Am I Doing Better Than You? That Depends on Whether You Ask Me in English or Chinese: Self-Enhancement Effects of Language as a Cultural Mindset Prime (2010, background): “Our findings clearly go beyond prior research (Ross et al., 2002) by demonstrating effects of language use in social-comparison situations.”
Advertising to Bilinguals: Does the Language of Advertising Influence the Nature of Thoughts? (2008, background): “Ross, Xun, and Wilson (2002) examine the possibility that language serves as a cue to distinct cultural mind-sets.”
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Transformative Theory of Biculturalism (2017, background): “Supporting this notion, several studies with biculturals have shown that language in the external environment acts as a cultural prime that elicits frame switching (Chen, BenetMartínez, & Ng, 2014; Lee, Oyserman, & Bond, 2010; Ross et al., 2002).”
A motivational hierarchy within: primacy of the individual self, relational self, or collective self? (2012, background): “…self-construal characteristic of Eastern cultures (Gaertner et al., 1999, Investigation 4), (b) samples of Chinese and North American students (Ross et al., 2002; Trafimow et al., 1991) as well as samples of Filipino and Mexican students (del Prado et al., 2007), and (c) manipulated primes of…”
The effect of culture on perception and cognition: A conceptual framework (2014, background): “Briley, Morris, and Simonson (2005) and Ross et al. (2002) similarly find that language can trigger culture-bound self-perceptions, with English-speaking bi-cultural people reporting a perception of the self as independent of others and Chinese-speaking bi-cultural people reporting a more…”
Being What You Say: The Effect of Essentialist Linguistic Labels on Preferences (2004, background): “Among those who are bilingual and bicultural, different languages appear to provide access to distinct, culturally specific selves ( Ross, Xun, & Wilson, 2002; see also Fiske, Kitayama, Markus, & Nisbett, 1998).”
Self-Construal and Emotion in Bicultural Bilinguals. (2004, background): “Moreover, differences in self-identity measures such as self-esteem, self-descriptions, and cultural views were reported by bicultural Chinese-English bilinguals depending upon the language in which scales were administered ( Ross, Xun, & Wilson, 2002 ).”
Cultural Chameleons: Biculturals, Conformity Motives, and Decision Making (2005, result): “As shown here and in other research (Bond, 1983; Ross et al., 2002), manipulations of bicultural individuals’ language environments can cause assimilation effects, where participants’ responses align with the language setting.”
Does culture influence what and how we think? Effects of priming individualism and collectivism. (2008, background): “A few studies examined “Chineseness” (Bond & Yang, 1982; Ross et al., 2002; Yang & Bond, 1980).”
Culture as situated cognition: Cultural mindsets, cultural fluency, and meaning making (2011, background): “For example, Ross, Xun, and Wilson ( 2002 ) randomly assigned Chinese-born students living in Canada to answer a questionnaire in English or Chinese, and found that students in the English condition wrote more positive self-descriptions and reported higher self-esteem than those in the Chinese condi”
Is self-esteem a universal need? Evidence from The People's Republic of China (2009, background): “Schmitt and Allik (2005) found a positive self-esteem bias in all 53 of the nations they surveyed, including Chinese people in Hong Kong and Taiwan.”