The Susceptibility to Persuasion Strategies Among Arab Muslims: The Role of Culture and Acculturation

Alnunu, Momin; Amin, Azzam; Abu-Rayya, Hisham M.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.574115

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“…Collectivist cultures emphasize family values such as family cohesion, mutual assistance, and close relations with extended family members 74 . However, Arab cultures are distinguished from East-Asian collectivistic cultures in multiple aspects, including geography, language, family structure 75 , expression of values 76 , and attitude toward authority 77 – 79 . Unjustified generalization of cultures diminishes distinguished cultural features 80 .…”

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Evidence for cultural differences in affect during mother–infant interactions

Salih

Abargil

Badarneh

et al. 2023

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Maternal care is considered a universal and even cross-species set of typical behaviors, which are necessary to determine the social development of children. In humans, most research on mother–infant bonding is based on Western cultures and conducted in European and American countries. Thus, it is still unknown which aspects of mother–infant behaviors are universal and which vary with culture. Here we test whether typical mother–infant behaviors of affect-communication and affect-regulation are equally represented during spontaneous interaction in Palestinian-Arab and Jewish cultures. 30 Palestinian-Arab and 43 Jewish mother–infant dyads were recruited and videotaped. Using AffectRegulation Coding System (ARCS), we behaviorally analyzed the second-by-second display of valence and arousal in each participant and calculated the dynamic patterns of affect co-regulation. The results show that Palestinian-Arab infants express more positive valence than Jewish infants and that Palestinian-Arab mothers express higher arousal compared to Jewish mothers. Moreover, we found culturally-distinct strategies to regulate the infant: increased arousal in Palestinian-Arab dyads and increased mutual affective match in Jewish dyads. Such cross-cultural differences in affect indicate that basic features of emotion that are often considered universal are differentially represented in different cultures. Affect communication and regulation patterns can be transmitted across generations in early-life socialization with caregivers.

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Evidence for cultural differences in affect during mother–infant interactions

Salih

Abargil

Badarneh

et al. 2023

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“…related appeal to processes of persuasion (Cialdini, et al, 1999;Tormala & Petty, 2002;Watkins, 2001, as cited in Aarons, 2004. Previous studies showed that there are differences between collectivist and individualist cultures with respect to persuasion processes (Alnunu, et al, 2021;Aksit, 2020;Cialdini et al, 1999;Orji, 2016). Therefore, differences in appeal may reflect these cultural influences.…”

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Mental Health Professionals’ Attitudes towards Evidence-Based Practice and usage of Evidence-Based Practices for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Bangladesh and Germany

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Mental Health, Bangladesh) for their support in data collection. They always gave me valuable suggestions how to build up ideas regarding the context of low middle-income countries. I am also grateful to Dr. Nabiul Islam Khan, (Professor, Forestry and Wood Technology Discipline at Khulna University, Bangladesh) for sharing knowledge of 'R' package.I am thankful to the research assistants in Bangladesh (Mst. Fasmaun and Mahjabeen ara) and Maryam Hakim in Germany who helped me to collect data from Bangladesh and Germany. I am particularly grateful to all participants of this study (Mental Health Professionals and special teachers working with children with autism in Bangladesh and Germany) who spent time for the research survey. Finally, I would like to give a heartiest thanks to my beloved husband, Md. Faisal Abedin Khan for his every support and encouragement to fulfil my dreams. Last but not least, I want to give a big hug to my son Rami, who was in Germany during my study period and always gave me unconditional love and inspiration. I am extremely grateful to my entire family for their love, patience, support, and blessings. Without them I would not have been this position today. Thank you all! iii healthcare systems of Bangladesh and Germany are described as well as the organizations that provide services for children and adolescents with ASD. The terms "Evidence-based practice (EBP)" and "Evidence-based practices (EBPs)" are defined. Then, attitudes towards EBP and EBPs as well as what are the barriers and facilitators to the implementation and usage of EBP and EBPs are described. Respective theoretical models are presented. Next, goals, research questions, and basic structure of this dissertation are presented in this chapter. Finally, short summary of the three studies of this dissertation are presented. Chapter 2 presents Paper 1-Pervin, M., Ahmed, H. U., & Hagmayer, Y. (2022). Effectiveness of interventions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder in highv income vs. lower middle-income countries: An overview of systematic reviews and research papers from LMIC. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13.

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The associations between self‐construal, emotional expressivity and acculturation among Arab immigrants

Van Assche,

Amin,

Abu‐Rayya

2024

Int J Psychol

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This contribution investigates differences in self‐construal and emotional expressivity among Arab immigrants and non‐immigrants. Furthermore, it examines the role of acculturation styles and perceived emotional acculturation in predicting these outcomes among Arab immigrants. Using a sample of 1249 self‐identified Arabs (629 immigrants in Western Europe and North America; 620 non‐immigrant Arabs in the Mashriq and Maghrib regions), we found that collectivist self‐construal was significantly lower, and positive emotional expressivity was significantly higher among immigrant, than non‐immigrant, Arabs. High home country acculturation (also in combination with high host country acculturation) was the strongest predictor of collectivist self‐construal. Immigrants' perception of the positive emotional expressivity of people in their host culture was the strongest predictor of their personal positive emotional expressivity. These results were replicated using the Euclidean distance method to measure acculturation. Hence, the study provides valuable insights into the relationships between self‐construal, emotional expressivity and acculturation styles, specifically among Arab immigrants.

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The Susceptibility to Persuasion Strategies Among Arab Muslims: The Role of Culture and Acculturation

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Evidence for cultural differences in affect during mother–infant interactions

Evidence for cultural differences in affect during mother–infant interactions

Mental Health Professionals’ Attitudes towards Evidence-Based Practice and usage of Evidence-Based Practices for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Bangladesh and Germany

The associations between self‐construal, emotional expressivity and acculturation among Arab immigrants

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