Isolating effects of cultural schemas: Cultural priming shifts Asian-Americans' biases in social description and memory

Morris, Michael W.; Mok, Aurelia

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2010.08.019

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“…It is particularly surprising that a link was found with job performance in general, as opposed to performance on activities within the culture domain. When cultural identities are examined from the perspective of the cultural schemas they represent, a link might be expected between cultural identity patterns and performance on culture-related activities, because schemas are assumed to only influence individuals when they are made salient, but the theoretical link does not usually extend to performance on activities in other domains (Markus, 1977;Morris & Mok, 2011). This surprising finding might be explained by the hotel context in which this study took place.…”

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Multicultural Employees: A Framework for Understanding How They Contribute to Organizations

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2013

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Multicultural Employees: A Framework for Understanding How They Contribute to Organizations

Fitzsimmons

2013

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“…Although past studies show that cultural images shift biculturals' judgments and decisions, we provide original evidence for the theorized automaticity of cultural priming, as the effects of priming occur despite its interference with fluent performance in English (28). Whereas past cultural priming studies have used language as a cultural prime (1,29,30), or measured linguistic category choices and memories indicative of cultural schemas (6), the present studies are unprecedented in looking at language as a performance that can be disrupted by cultural priming.…”

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Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference

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Morris

Cheng

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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For bicultural individuals, visual cues of a setting's cultural expectations can activate associated representations, switching the frames that guide their judgments. Research suggests that cultural cues may affect judgments through automatic priming, but has yet to investigate consequences for linguistic performance. The present studies investigate the proposal that heritage-culture cues hinder immigrants' second-language processing by priming first-language structures. For Chinese immigrants in the United States, speaking to a Chinese (vs. Caucasian) face reduced their English fluency, but at the same time increased their social comfort, effects that did not occur for a comparison group of European Americans (study 1). Similarly, exposure to iconic symbols of Chinese (vs. American) culture hindered Chinese immigrants' English fluency, when speaking about both culture-laden and culture-neutral topics (study 2). Finally, in both recognition (study 3) and naming tasks (study 4), Chinese icon priming increased accessibility of anomalous literal translations, indicating the intrusion of Chinese lexical structures into English processing. We discuss conceptual implications for the automaticity and adaptiveness of cultural priming and practical implications for immigrant acculturation and second-language learning.bilingual | cultural psychology | cognitive activation | cross-language interference

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“…Within each language condition, individuals were randomly assigned to a visual image condition, either Western scenes ( n = 37), Asian scenes ( n = 38), or noncultural scenes ( n = 36). Participants viewed four pictures of scenes (taken from Morris and Mok, 2011) and wrote down a few thoughts, feelings, or memories that each evoked. Afterwards, participants completed the need for cognitive closure scale (NFC; Webster & Kruglanski, 1994) on a scale of 1 ( strongly disagree ) to 6 ( strongly agree ), followed by a demographic survey.…”

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Cultural Identity Threat: The Role of Cultural Identifications in Moderating Closure Responses to Foreign Cultural Inflow

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Mok

Mor

2011

Journal of Social Issues

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Political theorists of globalization have argued that foreign inflows to a society can give rise to collective‐identity closure—social movements aiming to narrow the in‐group, and exclude minorities. In this research we investigate whether exposure to the mixing of a foreign culture with one's heritage culture can evoke need for closure, a motive that engenders ethnocentric social judgments. On the basis of a proposed identity threat mechanism, we tested the hypothesis that exposure to situations mixing foreign and heritage cultures would evoke need for closure for individuals with low foreign identification but not those with high foreign identification. An experiment with Hong Kong Chinese students varied linguistic and visual cues of Western and Chinese culture and found, as predicted, that exposure to mixed Western/Chinese conditions elevated need for closure for those low in Western identification but not those high in Western identification.

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Isolating effects of cultural schemas: Cultural priming shifts Asian-Americans' biases in social description and memory

Cited by 24 publications

References 37 publications

Multicultural Employees: A Framework for Understanding How They Contribute to Organizations

Multicultural Employees: A Framework for Understanding How They Contribute to Organizations

Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants’ second-language processing through triggering first-language interference

Cultural Identity Threat: The Role of Cultural Identifications in Moderating Closure Responses to Foreign Cultural Inflow

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