Culture and cause: American and Chinese attributions for social and physical events.
Abstract
The authors argue that attribution patterns reflect implicit theories acquired from induction and socialization and hence differentially distributed across human cultures. In particular, the authors tested the hypothesis that dispositionalism in attribution for behavior reflects a theory of social behavior more widespread in individualist than collectivist cultures
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Among East Asians, there is a greater sensitivity to the social context compared with Americans.
“Among East Asians, there is a greater sensitivity to the social context compared with Americans (Morris & Peng, 1994).”
From Creativity: The Influence of Cultural, Social, and Work Contexts (2010) · cites this paper as Morris & Peng, 1994
The basic finding of cultural variation in dispositional bias has been replicated and extended by subsequent researchers.
“The basic finding has since been replicated and extended by subsequent researchers (Morris and Peng, 1994;Chua et al., 2005b;Kitayama et al., 2006;Kitayama et al., 2009;see Choi et al., 1999;Mason and Morris, in press, for reviews).”
From Cultural neuroscience of the self: understanding the social grounding of the brain (2010) · cites this paper as Morris and Peng, 1994
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- Authors
- Morris, M. W., & Peng, K.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1994-12
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 949-971
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W2140225297
- Cited by
- 1,537
- References
- 164
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 17.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- causal attribution, dispositional attribution, mindset, individualism-collectivism, cross-cultural comparison, social behavior, physical events, socialization, induction
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