Of Mice and Culture: How Beliefs About Knowing Affect Habits of Thinking
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Of Mice and Culture: How Beliefs About Knowing Affect Habits of Thinking
Abstract
Recent research suggests that individuals from East Asian and Western cultures differ in the degree to which they hold a folk world view known as naïve dialecticism, which is characterized by tolerance for contradiction, expectation of change, and cognitive holism. The current research utilizes the Mouse Paradigm to investigate the dynamic nature of naïve dialecticism in real time by measuring individuals' fluctuations in judgment during the process of contemplation. The results showed cultural differences in dynamic measures of evaluation process: Japanese participants took more time to stabilize their thought and showed more fluctuations in their judgment than American participants. These cultural differences were fully mediated by individual differences in levels of naïve dialecticism as measured by the level of dialectical self-views. Implications for cultural psychology and the psychology of dialectical thinking are discussed.
Keywords: ambivalence; attitude structure; cultural differences; moment-to-moment evaluations; naïve dialecticism.
Copyright © 2022 Morio, Yeung, Peng and Yamaguchi.
Conflict of interest statement
SaY was employed by the company Zillow Group. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
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