Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
3-2011
Abstract
The CuPS (Culture × Person × Situation) approach attempts to jointly consider culture and individual differences, without treating either as noise and without reducing one to the other. Culture is important because it helps define psychological situations and create meaningful clusters of behavior according to particular logics. Individual differences are important because individuals vary in the extent to which they endorse or reject a culture's ideals. Further, because different cultures are organized by different logics, individual differences mean something different in each. Central to these studies are concepts of honor-related violence and individual worth as being inalienable versus socially conferred. We illustrate our argument with 2 experiments involving participants from honor, face, and dignity cultures. The studies showed that the same “type” of person who was most helpful, honest, and likely to behave with integrity in one culture was the “type” of person least likely to do so in another culture. We discuss how CuPS can provide a rudimentary but integrated approach to understanding both within- and between-culture variation.
Keywords
between-culture variation, culture, dignity, face, honor, individual differences, within-culture variation
Discipline
Multicultural Psychology | Personality and Social Contexts | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Volume
100
Issue
3
First Page
507
Last Page
526
ISSN
0022-3514
Identifier
10.1037/a0022151
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Citation
LEUNG, Angela K.-Y., & COHEN, Dov.(2011). Within- and between-culture variation: Individual differences and the cultural logics of honor, face, and dignity cultures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 507-526.
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1037/a0022151
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