Browsing Psychology by Subject "Culture"
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Cultural Differences in Compliments
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-31)Cultural differences in compliments were examined across five studies. The results are consistent with cultural differences in self-enhancement and self-criticism and suggest that compliment responses may reflect underlying ... -
Culture and Creativity: Understanding the Role of Uncertainty Avoidance and Multicultural Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)Research on culture and creativity has shown cultural differences in creative performance among Western and Eastern individuals such that Westerners consistently outperform Easterners on certain creative tasks. Theorists ... -
Message Order and Culture: The Relationship between Cognitive Thinking Styles, Response Mode, and Order Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Previous research has documented the prevalent effects of message order on message persuasiveness. Based on the Belief Updating Model (Hogarth and Einhorn, 1992), response mode has been found as one moderator of primacy ... -
Reading Your Counterpart: Culture, Meaning, and Function of Nonverbal Behaviour in Negotiation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-14)Literature on cross-cultural negotiation suggests that the challenges negotiators often face in intercultural interactions stem from miscommunication. While prior research examined verbal messages in this context, there ... -
Uniquely Diverse: Ethnic Diversity and Interethnic Contact Predict Individualistic Values and Behaviour
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Research on social change suggests that cultural values and behaviour have become increasingly individualistic over the past century. Prior researchers theorized that shifts in sociodemographic variables—e.g., changes in ... -
When Cultures Collide and Synergize: The Role of Cultural Essentialism in Intercultural Negotiations
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-27)Negotiating a synergized solution is challenging under optimal circumstances. Add in the challenge of cross-cultural differences, cultural collision occurs leading to worse negotiation outcomes in intercultural negotiation ...