Culture, dissonance, and self-affirmation¶
Heine, S. J., & Lehman, D. R. (1997). Culture, dissonance, and self-affirmation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23(4), 389-400.
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- Cognitive Dissonance
- T5: Dissonance as Universal Mechanism vs. Cultural-Specificity. Structural tension: Early dissonance theory assumed universal operation, but cross-cultural research reveals variation in whether or how dissonance is experienced.
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Free-choice experiment: Canadians showed standard dissonance reduction, Japanese none — direct evidence that whether dissonance is experienced varies cross-culturally; it does not attest the premise that early theory assumed universality.
“Within the framework of self-affirmation theory, the authors compared levels of dissonance reduction in the free-choice paradigm between a culture typical of an independent construal of self (Canadian) and a culture typical of an interdependent construal of self (Japanese). Whereas Canadian results virtually duplicated past self-affirmation findings with U.S. participants, Japanese results showed no dissonance …”
- T5: Dissonance as Universal Mechanism vs. Cultural-Specificity. Structural tension: Early dissonance theory assumed universal operation, but cross-cultural research reveals variation in whether or how dissonance is experienced.
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