AYUELI Academic class 118, level 6
Reading Summary #3
September 30th, 2007
Grace Guan
Cultural influences on personality
According to authors Harry C Triandis and Eunkook M Suh in their article “ Cultural influences on personality,” ( Review of Psychology, 2002, P133-160), they states the different people personality between collectivist cultures and individualist cultures.
In the article, Triandis and Suh generalize those 4 differences between these two cultures: 1, people in individualist cultures sample with high probability elements of the personal self (e.g.“I am busy”). People from collectivist cultures tend to sample mostly elements of the collective self (e.g.“my co-workers think I am kind”) ( Review of Psychology, 2002, P136). 2, in collectivist cultures, its members have many rules and norms about behavior and punish those who deviate from norms. Adolescents conform to the societal norms and do not engage in risk behaviors. In individualist cultures, people are more likely to react to deviations from normative behaviors by saying “It does not matter.”(Review of Psychology, 2002, P138). 3, in collectivist cultures people are interdependent with their in-groups and shape their behavior basis on in-group norms. People in individualist cultures prefer individual actions (Review of Psychology, 2002, P139). 4, People in collectivist cultures use indirect and face-saving communication more than people in individualist cultures (Review of Psychology, 2002, P143).
In conclusion, according to Triandis and Suh’s article, people personalities are influenced by cultures.
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Hi Grace. thank you for answering my survey.
when I answered your survey questions, I saw some questions related to this summary- about personarity. in my opinion, Asian people mostly care about what others think abot them and most people try to look good, nice, kind, smart, etc. therefore, most asian people could be polite and considering others carefully. and they are also like to say something in indirect ways.
I hope my comment help you, when you do your figure out your survey result. have a good day and see you tomorrow.
Hy Grace, i just read ur summary and based on your questions on your survey, i think the oriental culture in some aspects are totally different with western culture, and that could makes conflict, sound interesting,
well done & good job
hello, i just read your summary, this time i understand more about your topic hihi, i think there are some big differences between collectivist and individualist as well as their culture. And thank you for your summary, it gave me more information about the difference of cultures. It's intersting and i'm looking forward your next summary.
see u 2morow
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