“Express the Real You”: Cultural Differences in the Perception of Self-Expression as Authenticity  

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Kokkoris, Michail D. ; Kuhnen, Ulrich

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 45 no. 8 (Sep. 2014), page 1221-1228.
Topik: perceived authenticity; expression of dislikes; contextualism; motivated person perception; culture-fit
Fulltext: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology-2014-Kokkoris-1221-8.pdf (493.64KB)

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Prior research shows that people feel authentic when they express themselves. In this research, we examined how people from different cultures make inferences about a target person’s authenticity based on information about that person’s self-expression. Our cultural-fit hypothesis proposes that acts of self-expression enhance perceptions of authenticity when they are congruent with the culturally prevalent self-expression norms. In an experiment with Germans and Chinese reading scenarios and making inferences about a hypothetical person, we found that authenticity judgments were the highest, when the target person’s self-expression matched the culturally valued self-expression style—that is, expressing both likes and dislikes in Germany, and expressing only likes but no dislikes in China. Moreover, we found that the interactive effect of self-expression and culture had downstream effects on information processing, such that in the case of counter-cultural self-expression practices participants were more likely to seek information that would compensate for this cultural incongruence.

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