Does culture influence what and how we think? Effects of priming individualism and collectivism.

By D. Oyserman, Spike W. S. Lee. Psychological bulletin, 2008

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Subfields: Marketing, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The beliefs that underlie autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching: A multinational investigation (2014, background): “Culture influences what is believed to be true (Oyserman and Lee 2008).”
Self‐construal and students’ math self‐concept, anxiety and achievement: An examination of achievement goals as mediators (2014, background): “…one or the other self-construal more strongly, most researchers agree that to some extent both self-views exist in all societies and individuals vary in the extent to which they construe the self in the culturally mandated way (e.g., Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Oyserman & Lee, 2008; Singelis, 1994).”
Cultural Differences and Switching of In-Group Sharing Behavior Between an American (Facebook) and a Chinese (Renren) Social Networking Site (2013, background): “…stated, “cultural mindsets can be relatively easily shifted” (p. 52); when individuals participate in a particular SNS, they temporarily activate the associated knowledge structure of the online culture and also the accompanying behavioral tendencies (see also Higgins, 1996; Oyserman & Lee, 2008).”
The handbook of intergroup communication (2012, neutral): “A meta-analysis of research on linguistic priming of individualism and collectivism (Oyserman & Lee, 2008) showed that these effects are robust across experiments and nationality of participants.”
Consequences of cultural practices for entrepreneurial behaviors (2013, neutral): “Culture affects economic behaviors through individual-centric, collective, and societal mechanisms (Guiso, Sapienza, & Zingales, 2006; Oyserman & Lee, 2008).”
GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global Versus Local Processing (2010, background): “So-called collectivistic or interdependent cultures define the core unit as the group, and the person has to fit in with the given society and is fundamentally connected through interpersonal and group relations (see Oyserman & Lee, 2008).”
Identity‐Based Motivation: Implications for Health and Health Disparities (2014, background): “After circling " we, " an accessible relational or collectivistic mindset brings social roles, relationships, and social group identities, including gender, race-ethnicity, and social class identities to mind (for a meta-analytic review, see Oyserman & Lee, 2008).”
A cross-cultural investigation of trait emotional intelligence in Hong Kong and the UK (2014, neutral): “In contrast, personal feelings are not considered as relevant or constructive to the social order in collectivist societies and are therefore deemed less important in the presence of other values (e.g., uniformity, obligations to society, and interpersonal harmony; Oyserman & Lee, 2008).”
A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. (2009, positive): “…that has attracted considerable research attention in recent years as an explanation of cultural differences in psychological processes highlights the notion of knowledge activation (Oyserman & Lee, 2007, 2008; for reviews, see also, e.g., Bargh, 2006; Bargh & Chartrand, 2000; Higgins, 1996).”
The What, How, Why, and Where of Self-Construal (2011, methodology): “They examined the effects of priming tasks on self-concept-related outcomes (e.g., the TST and responses to the Singelis SCS measure).”
Culture as situated cognition: Cultural mindsets, cultural fluency, and meaning making (2011, methodology): “In their meta-analytic review Oyserman and Lee (2008a), note that the three most common priming techniques used in this literature were specifically developed to study culture.”
When and Why People Engage in Different Forms of Proactive Behavior: Interactive Effects of Self-construals and Work Characteristics (2017, methodology): “For example, proactive personality, or a “stable tendency to effect environmental change” (Bateman & Crant, 1993), is a core dispositional antecedent of several forms of proactivity, such as career initiative, taking charge, and making suggestions at work (see Fuller & Marler, 2009; Wu, Parker, & Bi”
What Predicts Loneliness? Cultural Difference Between Individualistic and Collectivistic Societies in Europe (2014, positive): “…interdependent, with individualistic societies promoting independent self-construals and collectivistic societies promoting interdependent self-construals (Kanagawa, Cross, & Markus, 2001; Kitayama, Markus, Matsumoto, & Norasakkunkit, 1997; Oyserman & Lee, 2008; Trafimow, Triandis, & Goto, 1991).”