Cultural Bias Evaluation
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- Created on: 13-11-16 20:07
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- Cultural Bias Evaluation
- Operation-alisation of Variables
- Variables may be experienced differently
- In China personal space invasion is normal but in the West it is threatening/ confronta-tional
- This affects interactions between researchers/ participants in the West/non-Western cultures
- Cultural Relativism VS Universality
- Shouldn't be assumed all psychology is culturally relative/no universal behaviour
- Ekman suggested facial expressions are similar worldwide/ interactional synchrony
- Challenging Implicit Assumptions
- Shows what concepts we take for granted
- Benefit of cross-cultural research is it challenges typical Western thinking
- Individualism and Collectivism
- Individualist Cultures = Western/US countries who value personal freedom/ independence
- Collectivist Cultures = India/China place more value on inter-dependence/ needs of the group
- Takano/Osaka found 14/15 studies comparing US/Japan had no evidence of distinction between individualism/ collectivism, shows culture bias is less of an issue
- Unfamiliarity with Research Tradition
- Western participants are assumed to be familiar with research objectives
- Other cultures don't have the same historical experience of research
- Operation-alisation of Variables
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