Benlik Kurgularının Spontane Kişilik Özelliği Çıkarımlarına Etkileri
Project no. 799 · Status: Kapanmış · 2018
Summary
Spontaneous trait inferences (STIs) describe the process of forming impressions about other people automatically and have two phases. First phase, activation phase includes the procedure of activation of a trait in people’s minds through observing a behavior and binding phase includes the procedure of binding this specific trait within the representations of observed actor in long term memory. Cross-cultural studies have indicated that adopted culture and the way people define themselves might have an effect on STIs. In collectivist cultures, activation phase might not occur, whereas binding phase occurs. In individualist cultures both phases might occur. In light of these correlational findings we aimed to investigate the relationship between culture (self-construals) and STIs experimentally. Nonetheless, our pilot studies have shown that as an individual indicator of culture, the self-construal manipulations did not work. Therefore, we examined the effects of self-construal as individual variable on both phases of STIs. Our findings have demonstrated there was no significant relationship between self-construals and phases of STIs. All findings were discussed on the point of whether self-construals are manipulable and in the frame of variations in activation and binding associated with culture and self-construals.