Cultural Differences in Revaluative Attributions  

Oleh:

Yaoran, Li ; Liu, Rude ; Schachtman, Todd R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jcca) vol. 47 no. 1 (Jan. 2016), page 149-166.
Topik: revaluative attribution; culture; inflation effect; deflation effect; dialectical thinking
Fulltext: JJ8614947012015.pdf (548.87KB)

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Culture can impact cognitive processes, including effects on causal attributions. This study examined cultural differences in revaluative attributions when two potential causes of an outcome are initially present, but new relevant causal information is later available, suggesting potential adjustments could be made with respect to the original judgment. Study 1 (N = 206) found that both Chinese and American participants showed revaluative attributions regarding the target cause when a nontarget cause was decreased in its validity during a subsequent phase. That is, the target cause was later judged as more valid when a nontarget cause was decreased in validity (the deflation effect). However, only American participants exhibited a significant decrease in the perceived validity of a target cause when the nontarget cause was increased in its validity (the inflation effect). Study 2 (N = 189) replicated these findings and also showed that dialectical thinking was a mediator of this cultural difference in revaluative attributions. The present study shows that culturally shaped cognitive processing can influence multicausal inferences.

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