Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Culture
- An everchanging, constructive
stimulus, which shapes the way
individuals perceive the world
- Nationality
- The country you were born in
- Ethnicity
- Your cultural heritage
- Identification
- The degree to which you include
group membership in your self
concept
- Meaning system
- Symbols, language, experience
- Describing culture
- Individualist/collectivist
- Politics, religion and ecological differences
- Language issues
- Is the meaning of words "lost in translation"?
- Translation efficacy
- Back translation
- Translating a word/phrase multiple
times between two languages until
both translations are the same
- How does culture affect us?
- Cognitive framing
- The framework in which you view the world
- Priming someone with a icon of
their culture temporarily increases
their identification with that culture
- Dialectal thinking
- A cognitive reasoning structure
through which an individual interprets
the environment
- Consists of 3 principles:
- Change
- Contradiction
- Wholeism
- Everything is interrelated
- Opposing propositions may both be true
- Everything is constantly changing
- Cultural effects on emotional states
- Emotional complexity
- The experience of many emotions
at the same time, such as positive
and negative emotions
- US - if you feel happy, you feel less sad
- East Asians - level of sadness
is unrelated to happiness
- Chinese and Koreans - positive
correlation between happiness
and sadness
- Moving between cultures
- Acculturation
- Successful integration of
the heritage of two cultures
- Assimilation
- Complete adoption of a new culture
and simultaneous rejection of old
- Bicultural Identity
- Degree to which two cultural identities are
integrated into a superordinate bicultural identity