Do multicultural experiences facilitate global processing style?

Abstract

The current research explores whether multicultural experiences facilitate global processing style. We conducted two experiments in which participants were exposed to either a multicultural experience or a monocultural experience. They were required to either perform the Navon letter task (Experiment 1) or search for similarities or differences between two videos (Experiment 2). The experimental results showed that, compared to the participants exposed to a monocultural experience, those exposed to a multicultural experience had faster reaction times to global letters (Experiment 1) and tended to search for similarities (Experiment 2). This indicates that individuals with multicultural experiences facilitate a global processing style.

Intergroup benefits of metacognitive cultural self? Cultural self-awareness and multicultural involvement on attitudes towards migrants

“…Various kinds of encounters with foreign cultures have been studied, from transient exposure in the laboratory with stimuli such as pictures, songs, and movie clips from foreign cultures (Tadmor et al, 2012; Wan et al, 2016), to current foreign culture involvement in different life aspects (Leung & Chiu, 2010), to cumulated experiences such as the number of countries traveled to (Cao et al, 2014) and length of stay abroad (Adam et al, 2018; Zimmermann & Neyer, 2013). Although the effects of multicultural experience on intergroup relations appear mixed (e.g., prejudice reduction on the one hand, increased stereotypical outgroup perception on the other; Chiu et al, 2009; Tadmor et al, 2012; for a review, see Chao et al, 2015), studies that specifically measured experiences with different cultures as an individual difference have consistently shown the intergroup benefit of multicultural experience (Sparkman & Eidelman, 2018; Sparkman et al, 2016; Tadmor et al, 2012).…”

Global precedence changes by environment: A systematic review and meta-analysis on effect of perceptual field variables on global-local visual processing

“…Local-global processing was examined in different varieties of animals, such as insects (Avargues-Weber, Dyer, & Giurfa, 2012), pigeons (Cavoto & Cook, 2001), fish (Truppa, Sovrano, Spinozzi, & Bisazza, 2010), dogs (Pitteri, Mongillo, Carnier, & Marinelli, 2014), and monkeys (Tanaka & Fujita, 2000). The variables that affect local-global processing can be divided into two primary categories: (a) individual characteristics, including age (Bruyer & Scailquin, 2000), gender (Muller-Oehring, Schulte, Raassi, Pfefferbaum, & Sullivan, 2007), disorder (Yovel, Revelle, & Mineka, 2005), and culture (Wan, Yang, Liu, & Li, 2016); and (b) perceptual field variables, including stimulus size (Amirkhiabani & Lovegrove, 1996), eccentricity, sparsity (Blanca & Lopez-Montiel, 2009), visual field (Christie et al, 2012), and spatial frequency (Lamb & Yund, 1993).…”