Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
9-2007
Abstract
Cultural assumptions about one's relation to others and one's place in the world can be literally embodied in the way one cognitively maps out one's position and motion in time and space. In three experiments, we examined the psychological perspective that Asian American and Euro-American participants embodied as they both comprehended and produced narratives and mapped out metaphors of time and space. In social situations, Euro-American participants were more likely to embody their own perspective and a sense of their own motion (rather than those of a friend), whereas Asian American participants were more likely to embody a friend's perspective and sense of motion (rather than their own). We discuss how these psychological perspectives represent the soft embodiment of culture by implicitly instantiating cultural injunctions (a) to think about how you look to others and to harmonize with them or (b) to know yourself, trust yourself, and act with confidence.
Discipline
Multicultural Psychology | Social Psychology
Research Areas
Psychology
Publication
Psychological Science
Volume
18
Issue
9
First Page
824
Last Page
830
ISSN
1467-9280
Identifier
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01986.x
Publisher
SAGE
Citation
LEUNG, Angela K. Y., & COHEN, Dov.(2007). The Soft Embodiment of Culture: Camera Angles and Motion through Time and Space. Psychological Science, 18(9), 824-830.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/403
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Authors
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01986.x