open access

https://hdl.handle.net/2115/47947

Attending inside or outside: A Japanese-US comparison of spontaneous memory of group information

英語

memory

2010-12

Blackwell

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

13(4)

303-307

A recent review of empirical evidence disconfirmed the widely-held view that North Americans are less collectivistic than East Asians. However, previous research has proposed that the motivations underlying group behaviours differ across cultures: North Americans are more strongly motivated to acquire and maintain higher in-group status relative to outgroups, whereas East Asians tend to emphasize maintenance of reciprocal relationships within in-groups. We tested this hypothesis by examining the pattern of attentional allocation in group situations using a memory task. As predicted, compared to Japanese, memory performance among Americans was biased towards intergroup status difference over intragroup relationship information.

学術雑誌論文

Accepted Manuscript

Author Posting. ©The Authors 2010. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Asian journal of social psychology 13(4),p.303-307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01327.x

1367-2223

1467-839X

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