Connected Knowing for an Out-Group May Depend Upon Cultural Values

• In Event: Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: Motivation and Cognition in Varied Contexts

Abstract

This research tested the relationship between individuals’ cultural values and the malleability in their ways of knowing. College students initially received two priming conditions on either their in-group or their out-group. Then, their ways of knowing: separate knowing (being a devil’s advocate) and connected knowing (taking another’s perspective) and cultural values: collectivist-horizontal, collectivist-vertical, individualist-horizontal, and individualist-vertical were assessed. When students had their in-group in mind, their connected knowing score was significantly higher than their separate knowing score in all cultural categories. When students had their out-group in mind, their connected knowing scores decreased to comparable levels of their separate knowing score in all cultural values except horizontal-collectivist.

Authors

• Marlene A. Schommer-Aikins, Wichita State University

• Marilyn K. Easter, San José State University