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Nov 1, 2017 · Chapter 18. Social In fluence and Intercultural. Dif ferences. Lionel Rodrigues, J érôme Blondéand Fabien Girandola. Abstract Culture is an important part of what individuals are and can ...
Abstract. Culture presents a unique perspective on understanding much of the social influence literature. Research on attitude change, persuasion, and many other forms of social influence have typically focused on defining psychological constructs through a Western lens and a biased sample. This chapter explores cultural factors that modify our ...
Nov 4, 2017 · These cultural aspects have important repercussions on forming and changing attitudes and behaviors, and also in the social psychological theories which take them into account: the cognitive dissonance theory, persuasive communication in various domains such as public health, the environment, consumption and its advertising contents [1, 13, 85], radicalization Footnote 1 [81, 82] or even the ...
- Lionel Rodrigues, Jérôme Blondé, Fabien Girandola
- 2018
Together, they seriously undermine the importance of culture and cultural psychology in the study of human cognition and behavior. Assumption 1: Cultural psychology is only about finding group differences. Assumption 2: Cultural psychology does not care about group similarities. Assumption 3: Cultural psychology only concerns group-level analysis.
- Self-Efficacy and Its Four Sources
- German Students with Diverse Immigrant Backgrounds
- Socialization Dimensions
- The Present Study
Self-efficacy is related to achievement and performance levels through people’s beliefs about and awareness of their own capabilities regarding a specific task or course of action (Bandura, 1997; Klassen & Usher, 2010). In contrast to the self-concept, perceived capabilities are directed toward future and challenging tasks (Pajares & Schunk, 2001)....
In recent decades, Germany has become an increasingly multicultural and multilingual society due to immigration; it is characterized as an assimilative context (e.g., Berry et al., 2006). Educational research on the academic gap between students of diverse immigrant backgrounds and its determinants have repeatedly shown that students with a Turkish...
In social cognitive theory, triadic reciprocal determinism hypothesizes mutual interactions between personal, behavioral, and environmental characteristics (Bandura, 1997; Pajares & Usher, 2008). Persons evaluate the unique contribution of their own capabilities to each experience in a reciprocal interaction with situational and contextual aspects....
The present study investigated differences in predicting academic self-efficacy by its sources between students with an immigrant background from the former Soviet Union, students with a Turkish immigrant background, and students without an immigrant background. To shed further light on possible differences in students’ academic self-efficacy, we e...
- Miriam M. Gebauer, Nele McElvany, Olaf Köller, Christian Schöber
- 2021
Apr 1, 2016 · Current questions in the study of personality traits across cultures include (a) the universality versus cultural uniqueness of trait structure, (b) cultural differences in trait levels, (c) trait consistency and validity, and (d) the evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts of personality. Trait theorists expect similar trait structure ...
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Summary. This chapter explores cultural factors that modify the understanding of social influence beginning with a review of source factors, including credibility, power and power distance, and minority influence. The structure of a persuasive message can have a powerful influence on its effectiveness. In general, cross-cultural research has ...
