• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Culture, Dissonance, and Self-Affirmation
  • Beteiligte: Heine, Steven J.; Lehman, Darrin R.
  • Erschienen: SAGE Publications, 1997
  • Erschienen in: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23 (1997) 4, Seite 389-400
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1177/0146167297234005
  • ISSN: 1552-7433; 0146-1672
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p>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 reduction. This, the authors argue, is because such situations do not threaten core aspects of the interdependent self:</jats:p>