Cultures and Selves

By H. Markus, Shinobu Kitayama. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2010

1,122 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/788d2f8d85b6e9fa553bd07b6a8fd7f7b03cadbb

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Social Psychology

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

How social class shapes thoughts and actions in organizations (2011, background): “As a dimension of the self, social class is associated with particular patterns of interaction with the social world (Greenwald et al., 2002; Markus & Kitayama, 1991, 2010).”
Social-Class Disparities in Higher Education and Professional Workplaces: The Role of Cultural Mismatch (2018, background): “First, we explain how different social-class contexts in the United States tend to reflect and foster different cultural models of self, or culturespecific understandings of what it means to be a good or appropriate person in the world (Markus & Kitayama, 2010).”
Different stories: How levels of familiarity with literary and genre fiction relate to mentalizing. (2017, result): “…view is consistent with recent advances in psychological theories of culture that posit that “repeated and continuous engagement in some select set of practices involving certain features . . . may lead to some characteristic patterns of psychological response” (Markus & Kitayama, 2010, p. 427).”
Motivational teacher strategies: the role of beliefs and contextual factors (2015, positive): “In cross-cultural studies, it is argued that autonomy is a value of Western, individualistic societies and that it might not be as beneﬁcial to students who have a background from more collectivistic cultures (Kitayama et al. 2004; Markus and Kitayama 2010).”
Time Period and Birth Cohort Differences in Depressive Symptoms in the U.S., 1982–2013 (2015, neutral): “individuals constantly influence each other (Markus and Kitayama 2010).”
Countries and Cultural Differences in the Stigma of Mental Illness: The East–West Divide (2020, background): “Although some cultural theories suggest that the distinction between minority and majority group members might be stronger in Eastern versus Western countries (e.g., Markus & Kitayama, 2010), there is little empirical work examining this question.”
A Road Map for an Emerging Psychology of Social Class (2012, background): “These systematic social class differences in the material and social conditions of the environment foster different conceptions of the self, which, in turn, provide different blueprints for appropriate behavior (Markus & Kitayama, 1991, 2010).”