How Individualists Interpret Behavior: Idiocentrism and Spontaneous Trait Inference

Two experiments are presented that demonstrated that individual differences in idiocentrism predict the extent to which people spontaneously interpret behaviors in personality trait terms. Results are discussed.

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Published inSocial cognition Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 243 - 269
Main Author Newman, Leonard S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Guilford 01.06.1993
Guilford Press
Subjects
Behavior
Behavior. Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Perception of others
Perceptions
Personality
Personality traits
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social psychology
Social research
Human
Crosscultural study
Social behavior
Social perception
Attitude
Cultural environment
Interference
Personality
Interpretation
Social cognition
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Abstract Two experiments are presented that demonstrated that individual differences in idiocentrism predict the extent to which people spontaneously interpret behaviors in personality trait terms. Results are discussed.
AbstractList Two experiments are presented that demonstrated that individual differences in idiocentrism predict the extent to which people spontaneously interpret behaviors in personality trait terms. Results are discussed.
Previous research suggests that people from different cultural backgrounds differ in the extent to which they describe others and explain their behavior in terms of stable dispositions. But little is known about the precise social inference processes that mediate these differences. Two experiments demonstrate that individual differences in idiocentrism (a personality variable defined by the attitudes and behaviors associated with individualist cultures) predict the extent to which people spontaneously (i.e., unintentionally) interpret behaviors in personality trait terms. Experiment 1 demonstrated this (for male subjects only) with a cued recall procedure, while Experiment 2 did so (for all subjects) using an alternative reaction time measure. The advantages of combining theory and methods from the cross-cultural and social-cognitive literatures are discussed.
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