Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The effect of
language on the
bicultural self
- Procedure
- People born in China, living in Canada
- Asked to describe who they were either in English
(condition 1) or Chinese (condition 2)
- Aim: to see if we have different cultural selves that
can be cued by environmental factors
- Findings
- Those that descirbed themselves in English used more
individual attributes than those who described in
Chinese
- Those who described themselves in Chinese used more
relational terms than those who described in English
- Criticism
- The participants may have been reacting
to demand characteristics, as they were
presented with a certain type of
interviewer, and conformed to what they
were expecting.