Culture, self-construal, and affective reactions to successful and unsuccessful others

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Three studies were conducted to examine whether cultural background and self-construal predict affective reactions to successful and unsuccessful others. Results suggest that Asian-Canadians and those with more interdependent self-construals have less positive affective reactions to an unsuccessful other than did European-Canadians and those with less interdependent self-construals.

Canada, Public affairs, Social aspects, Analysis, Interpersonal relations, Comparison (Psychology), Asian Canadians

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Culture, memory, and the self: an analysis of the personal and collective self in long-term memory

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A memory paradigm was used to test whether the nature of representations of the self within long-term memory varied as a function of cultural background. It is considered that variations in long-term memory trace strength for self-related data may emerge as differences in the working self and implications of this difference are discussed.

Recognition (Psychology), Recognition (Memory), Long-term memory

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Mood acknowledgement and correction for the mood-congruency bias in social judgment

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A mood-congruency bias was revealed wherein people evaluate other individuals more positively when they are experiencing good moods than when they are experiencing bad moods. The capacity to attend openly to one's mood is considered as an important precursor to such mood correction efforts

Mood (Psychology)

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