Self-construal: a cultural framework for brain function

Han, Shihui; Humphreys, Glyn W.

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.09.013

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“…Meanwhile, self-construal can modulate the response to rewards for self versus for others. Self-construal refers to how individuals define and make meaning of the self (Cross, Hardin, & Gercek-Swing, 2011;Han & Humphreys, 2016). Markus and Kitayama (1991) proposed two types of selfconstruals.…”

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The influence of self-construals on the ERP response to the rewards for self and mother

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2018

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Individual self-construal (independent vs. interdependent) could be temporarily modulated by the priming effect. Our previous studies have found that when Chinese participants gambled for mother and for self, outcome feedback evoked comparable neural responses between two conditions. However, it remains unclear if the response to rewards for mother and for self would differ after independence self-construal priming. In this study, we manipulated participants' self-construal (independent vs. interdependent) before a simple gambling task. The event-related potential (ERP) results reveal that when an interdependent self-construal was primed, the participants exhibited a comparable feedback-related negativity (FRN) elicited by outcome feedback for self and for mother. In contrast, independent self-construal priming resulted in a greater FRN elicited by outcome feedback for self than for mother. Meanwhile, the P3 component was insensitive to self-construal manipulation. These findings indicate the modulation effect of self-construal priming on the response to rewards for others.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The influence of self-construals on the ERP response to the rewards for self and mother

Zhu

Zhang

et al. 2018

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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“…For the sense of agency, the sharp distinction between explicit and implicit processes is incomplete: Voyer and Franks (2014) suggest that three different modalities are involved in its assessment: implicit (a "feeling" of agency), intermediate (a "perception"), and explicit (a "judgment"). The intermediate level of self-related processing is in line with recent developments in the field of cultural neuroscience (Han & Humphreys 2016;Sasaki & Kim 2017). It may involve composing complex plans and actions from less complex ones but does not, in itself, require conscious awareness of that agency (e.g., holding a cup whilst someone else is pouring a drink in it).…”

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The Nietzschean precedent for anti-reflective, dialogical agency

Alfano

2018

Behav Brain Sci

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Nietzsche anticipates both the anti-reflective and the dialogical aspects of Doris's theory of agency. Nietzsche's doctrine of will to power presupposes that agency does not require reflection but emerges from interacting drives, affects, and emotions. Furthermore, Nietzsche identifies two channels through which dialogical processes of person-formation flow: sometimes a person announces what she is and meets with social acceptance of that claim; sometimes someone else announces what the person is, and she accepts the attribution.

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“…Recent research on gene-culture coevolution (e.g., Boyd and Richerson, 1985;Laland et al, 2010) and cultural neuroscience (e.g., Chiao et al, 2008Chiao et al, , 2013Han and Humphreys, 2016) has supported the integration of natural and cultural science and emphasized the dynamic organism × environment interactions on both the individual and culture group levels (Kashima, 2014(Kashima, , 2016. Likewise, the modern CBS approach has increasingly integrated within a larger framework of evolutionary science (Hayes et al, 2012(Hayes et al, , 2017Wilson et al, 2018), and wholeheartedly agrees with these propositions.…”

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“…Following the trends in cultural psychology, independent and interdependent self-construal were posited as mediators (Okazaki, 1997;Krieg andXu, 2015, 2018), where viewing oneself as separate or independent from social others led to reduced social anxiety and viewing oneself as interconnected with social others as either increasing (Okazaki, 1997; or unrelated to social anxiety (Krieg and Xu, 2015). Employing a cultural neuroscience perspective, selfconstrual was understood act as a framework for a variety of cognitive functions (Han and Humphreys, 2016), including determining the emotional saliency and relevance to the self, and "threat appraisal" was added to the model . As originally suggested by Okazaki (1997Okazaki ( , 2000, demonstrated that patterns of interdependence (and relatively less independence) transform the perception of a variety of social situations as "high stakes" situations for members of one group more than the other.…”

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A Contextual Behavioral Account of Culture: Example Implementation of a Functional Behavioral Approach to the Study of Cultural Differences in Social Anxiety

Krieg

2020

Front. Psychol.

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The current article proposes integrating a functional behavior approach to the study of culture. After describing culture from a contextual behavioral science framework, we outline a three-step process to perform a functional behavior analysis of culture: (1) identifying potential contingencies, (2) determining functional relationships, and (3) gathering supporting evidence. As an example, we present each of the three steps through a re-analysis of data related to cultural differences in social anxiety between Japanese and European Americans as well as describe a hypothetical experiment. The results demonstrate how implementing an alternative framework that focuses on the relationship between behavioral function and environmental adaptability leads to different conclusions compared to implementing frameworks that emphasize the form or degree of a behavior or belief in one group compared to another. For this particular example, in contrast to viewing social anxiety in Japanese as something stemming from innate beliefs about themselves and others (e.g., self-construal), the current study suggests that displaying social anxiety in some situations within a Japanese context is more functionally adaptive (e.g., more likely leads to desirable outcomes) than within a European American context.

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Self-construal: a cultural framework for brain function

Cited by 123 publications

References 44 publications

The influence of self-construals on the ERP response to the rewards for self and mother

The influence of self-construals on the ERP response to the rewards for self and mother

The Nietzschean precedent for anti-reflective, dialogical agency

A Contextual Behavioral Account of Culture: Example Implementation of a Functional Behavioral Approach to the Study of Cultural Differences in Social Anxiety

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