What is the source of cultural differences? -- Examining the influence of thinking style on the attribution process

Cultural Interpretations of Global Information? Hindsight Bias after Reading Wikipedia Articles across Cultures

“…This might also be a result of measurement. The AHS has yielded acceptable reliability in various previous settings (e.g., Korea and the USA: Choi et al, ; Taiwan: Jen & Lien, ; China, Japan, and Malaysia: Klein et al, ), but marked differences in scores between Eastern and Western participants are not always obtained (e.g., Bui & Flicker, ). Therefore, it might be worthwhile to use alternative instruments to measure analytic versus holistic thinking (e.g., by more implicit measures such as attention to stimuli, Masuda & Nisbett, ), although the predictive validity of the AHS was successfully tested in the original study (Choi et al, ).…”

Does Thinking Style Affect the Impacts of Satisfaction and Reputation on Repurchase Intention? A Cross-National Comparison

“…In contrast, holistic thinkers focus on context-dependent cognitive processes more than analytic thinkers (Jen and Lien, 2010). For holistic thinkers, although product attributes are important, other elements are as well, such as brand, reputation, and so forth in allowing one to come to a purchase decision (Liang, 2008).…”

“…For instance, analytic thinkers place more importance on internal evaluations about products and their attributes (Monga and John, 2008;Nisbett et al, 2001). Since analytic thinkers are more object-centered (Jen and Lien, 2010), they tend to consider a product's attributes primarily and in isolation from its environment. They pay more attention to the analytic parts of the object, not to the whole.…”

“…Recently, with Nisbett et al's (2001) study, it has been conceptualized as a source of cultural differences in cultural psychology literature. The logic behind cultural conceptualization is that people with different cultural backgrounds may perform differently on various attribution tasks (Jen and Lien, 2010) such as different views of the self. Subsequently, a framework using the two styles was adopted in several studies to predict cross-cultural differences (i.e., Choi et al, 2003;Jen and Lien, 2010;Liang, 2008;Monga and John, 2004).…”

“…The logic behind cultural conceptualization is that people with different cultural backgrounds may perform differently on various attribution tasks (Jen and Lien, 2010) such as different views of the self. Subsequently, a framework using the two styles was adopted in several studies to predict cross-cultural differences (i.e., Choi et al, 2003;Jen and Lien, 2010;Liang, 2008;Monga and John, 2004). Nisbett et al (2001) have observed that differences in thinking styles across cultures are shaped by differences in social orientation (number and intensity of social relations).…”