TY - JOUR
T1 - Within- and between-culture variation
T2 - Individual differences and the cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity cultures
AU - Leung, Angela K.Y.
AU - Cohen, Dov
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - The CuPS (Culture × Person × Situation) approach attempts to jointly consider culture and individual differences, without treating either as noise and without reducing one to the other. Culture is important because it helps define psychological situations and create meaningful clusters of behavior according to particular logics. Individual differences are important because individuals vary in the extent to which they endorse or reject a culture's ideals. Further, because different cultures are organized by different logics, individual differences mean something different in each. Central to these studies are concepts of honor-related violence and individual worth as being inalienable versus socially conferred. We illustrate our argument with 2 experiments involving participants from honor, face, and dignity cultures. The studies showed that the same " type" of person who was most helpful, honest, and likely to behave with integrity in one culture was the " type" of person least likely to do so in another culture. We discuss how CuPS can provide a rudimentary but integrated approach to understanding both within- and between-culture variation.
AB - The CuPS (Culture × Person × Situation) approach attempts to jointly consider culture and individual differences, without treating either as noise and without reducing one to the other. Culture is important because it helps define psychological situations and create meaningful clusters of behavior according to particular logics. Individual differences are important because individuals vary in the extent to which they endorse or reject a culture's ideals. Further, because different cultures are organized by different logics, individual differences mean something different in each. Central to these studies are concepts of honor-related violence and individual worth as being inalienable versus socially conferred. We illustrate our argument with 2 experiments involving participants from honor, face, and dignity cultures. The studies showed that the same " type" of person who was most helpful, honest, and likely to behave with integrity in one culture was the " type" of person least likely to do so in another culture. We discuss how CuPS can provide a rudimentary but integrated approach to understanding both within- and between-culture variation.
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U2 - 10.1037/a0022151
DO - 10.1037/a0022151
M3 - Article
C2 - 21244179
AN - SCOPUS:79952083552
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 100
SP - 507
EP - 526
JO - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
IS - 3
ER -