PSYC 3350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: All Of Us, Collectivism, Conscientiousness

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Richard N Lalonde

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How we make attributions to certain outcomes. Compared american college students to students in various groups in east africa (kenya) They broke it down into two diff types of personal attributes (e(cid:454): (cid:862) i a(cid:373) sh(cid:455)(cid:863)(cid:895) (cid:862)i a(cid:373) a (cid:271)ig sister(cid:863) (cid:373)ore related to roles a(cid:374)d (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)erships a(cid:374) (cid:374)ot perso(cid:374)al (cid:272)hara(cid:272)teristi(cid:272)s(cid:863) What they observe in their paper is that social psychology is based on studies of ppl having an independent view of themselves. Not the first to talk about this- but its an important paper uz they are from the uni of. What they observe: if you move outside of north america or the non-western world, people there have more of an interdependent view of the self rather than an independent view of the self. Individual defi(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) pri(cid:373)ar(cid:455) attri(cid:271)utes (cid:894) the (cid:271)ig xx(cid:859)s(cid:895) that person ahs many acquaintances, mother,father,friends etc. Basically, the self is experienced largely independently from the others.