Individual personality is best understood as process, not structure: A Confucian-inspired perspective

Giordano, Peter J.

doi:10.1177/1354067x17692118

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“…Although Confucian thought has undergone varying degrees of change in Taiwan and mainland China (the primary ethnic Chinese societies), it still maintains a dominant position across all Chinese societies (Yen, 1992 b;Wu, 2006;Wong, et. al., 2010;Giordano, 2017). The ethical norms emphasized by the five cardinal relationships and ten appropriate conducts in Confucian culture have undergone formal changes in modern society but still possess substantive guiding significance for interpersonal interactions.…”

Section: Socio-cultural Foundations National Character and Their Impa...mentioning

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A Research on the Dual Value Model of Individual Transaction Decision in Ethnic Chinese Society

Yen,

Tsao

2024

Advances in Management and Applied Economics

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In ethnic Chinese society, interpersonal relationships significantly influence transaction decisions, contrasting with Western economic rationality which often neglects the role of "human relationships". This research introduces a Dual Value Model (DVM) to explore how Chinese individuals navigate these complex interpersonal dynamics in transaction decisions. It highlights the integration of Potential Social Value (PSV), stemming from the counterparty's social status (vertical relationship) and emotional closeness (horizontal relationship), with Potential Economic Value (PEV), focusing on the economic outcomes of the transaction. These two potential values are defined through expectancy theory to facilitate communal comparison. This duality necessitates a balance, demonstrating a unique economic-social tradeoff where individuals might accept lower economic benefits in favor of enhancing or maintaining favorable “Guanxi.” The concept of "guanxi mark-down (GMD)" and "Compensatory Mark-up (CMU)" are introduced as strategies employed to steer this balance, reflecting the social etiquette and economic pragmatism within Chinese transactional behavior. The research aims to provide a nuanced understanding of Chinese transaction decision-making, offering insights for guiding interpersonal relationships and economic considerations in a socio-cultural context deeply influenced by Confucian principles. Keywords: Transaction decision, Dual value model (DVM), Potential social value (PSV), Potential economic value (PEV), Guanxi; Expectancy theory.

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Section: Socio-cultural Foundations National Character and Their Impa...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Research on the Dual Value Model of Individual Transaction Decision in Ethnic Chinese Society

Yen,

Tsao

2024

Advances in Management and Applied Economics

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“…The aesthetic dimension of experience is the artistic affective integration of lived and imagined aspects of the experience. However, this integration does not represent the dissolution of tension or differences (as inferred from Giordano, 2017). It could be precisely the unification of contradictory emotions in one and the same stream of life.…”

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Self as an Aesthetic Effect

Larraín

Haye

2019

Front. Psychol.

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Mainstream psychology has assumed a notion of the self that seems to rest on a substantialist notion of the psyche that became predominant despite important critical theories about the self. Although cultural psychology has recognized the diverse, dialogical, historical, narrative, and performative nature of self, as opposed to the idea of self as entity, it is not clear how it accounts for the phenomenological experience of self as a unified image. In this paper, we offer a theoretical contribution to developing the implications of a genetic approach to self in cultural psychology, taking into account an otherwise overlooked dimension: art and aesthetics. We draw on the work of classical authors relevant to cultural psychology, who, although geopolitically and theoretically diverse, are concerted in understanding human psychological life as part of a living process of becoming: James, Mead, Dewey, Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and Vološinov. Overall, the hypothesis developed throughout the paper is that self is produced within psychological individuation as an effect of the aesthetic activity involved in everyday discursive life. We deepen the ideas that self is not an entity but a process of open becoming and that cultural life entails a radical experience of alterity, but we recognize the psychological importance of the sense of unity and closure generated in this process. We argue that self entails not only the process of becoming but also an aesthetical effect of unity in becoming. Self as an aesthetic effect emphasizes the self as a discursive and technical process of production, involving a product that, despite not being a finished entity, is felt as unitary and as mine by virtue of a specific transformation of experience. We thus propose to define self, on one level, as an epistemological category that points to the paradoxes of identity and agency in psychological individuation, and, on a different level, as a twofold operation that makes possible the subjective experience of a constitutive effort as much as a transient but experienced identity or agency.

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“…The inclusion of non-occidental world views is a resource for advancement in cultural psychology. The increasing interest in the traditions of Chinese and Indian original thought systems (Giordano, 2017; Guo, Shen, Zhang, & Wu, 2019; Hen & Wang, 2013; Hwang, 2017; Misra & Kapur, 2014) and new links with phenomena (Hussein, 2019) indicate that cultural psychology is in the process of changing its axiomatic base geographically from the North-West (Europe and North America) to South-East (South America and the Orient). In this geo-intellectual move, Guimarães’ theory is an example of new synthesis of ideas beyond being caught in the struggle for being heard internationally by “indigenous” psychologies.…”

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Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

Valsiner¹

2019

Culture & Psychology

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In this article, I review main directions in innovative ideas that have been presented on the pages of Culture & Psychology over its 25 year history. The field of cultural psychology has become established and gains increasing prominence over the years covered—yet its future depends on careful development of the specific theoretical ideas catalyzed by the use of the hyper-term culture in the different arenas of concrete human psychology. Potential future ideas for cultural psychology include a move from acculturation to proculturation, modulation of psychological distance by signs, building models of dialogical relationships in socially asymmetric role relations, and of the affective textures of everyday living. These are all processes of higher-order complexity that require new ways of conceptualizing methodology in psychology—one that prioritizes theoretically based methods construction over those of consensually established “tool boxes.” Cultural psychology has the advantage over other areas of psychology to consider both the real and not (yet) real human conditions within the same scheme, thus allowing for conceptualization of highest forms of human creativity in ordinary human lives.

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Individual personality is best understood as process, not structure: A Confucian-inspired perspective

Cited by 11 publications

References 43 publications

A Research on the Dual Value Model of Individual Transaction Decision in Ethnic Chinese Society

A Research on the Dual Value Model of Individual Transaction Decision in Ethnic Chinese Society

Self as an Aesthetic Effect

Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

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