PSYC 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cultural Psychology, Human Nature, Masculinity
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Indulgence: whether people in a group value or control grati cation of one"s desires and value happiness. Restrained: little concern for freedom of speech. Personal life seen through helplessness, less likely to remember positive emotions. Indulgence: great importance place on freedom of speech. Hofstede"s value dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity. Individualism-collectivism = most studied value dimensions inc cultural psychology. Most important outcome of this research has to do with promoting different self- concepts. Self-schema= cognitive schema (knowledge structure) that contains beliefs about the self (also called self-construals), all the information you have about yourself. Has implications for how the self relates to other people, and attainment of personal goals. In particular, there is a strong distinction between independent self control or interdependent self-construal. Individualism and collectivism has implications for how we interact with other people and how we think about ourself, affected by self-construal. Markus and kitayama (1991: independent self-construal: main separation is between self and others.
