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The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition

Contradiction, Change, and Holism

Edited by Julie Spencer-Rodgers and Kaiping Peng

Provides insight into understanding East-West differences in cognition, emotion, and behavior
Sheds light on how Westerners (e.g. Americans, British, Australians, etc.) are similar in their basic cognitive processes
Elucidates cultural differences that are pertinent to all of East Asia (and all of the West)

The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition

Contradiction, Change, and Holism

Edited by Julie Spencer-Rodgers and Kaiping Peng

Description

The unprecedented economic growth in many East Asian societies in the few past decades have placed the region center stage, and increasing globalization has made East-West cultural understanding of even greater importance today. The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition is one of the most comprehensive volumes on East Asian cognition and thinking styles to date, and is one of the first to bring together a large body of empirical research on naïve dialecticism and analytic/holistic thinking theories stemming from Richard Nisbett's highly influential The Geography of Thought.

Edited by Julie Spencer-Rodgers and Kaiping Peng, The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition expertly examines the psychological, philosophical, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of these thinking theories for human thought, emotion, and behavior. In the past couple of decades, research on this topic has flourished, and East-West cultural differences have been documented in almost all aspects of the human condition, from the manner in which people reason and make decisions, conceptualize themselves and those around them, to how they cope with stress and mental illness, and interact with others, including romantic partners and social groups.

Contributions to this volume cover such fascinating and diverse topics as cultural neuroscience and the brain, lifespan development, attitudes and group perception, romantic relationships, the adoption of foreign mindsets and perspectives, creativity, emotion, the self-concept, racial and ethnic identity, psychopathology, and coping processes and wellbeing. Further, the research featured within this volume has practical implications for business and organizational management, international relations and politics, education, and clinical and counseling psychology, and may be of particular interest to business professionals, managers in government and non-profit sectors, as well as educators and clinicians working with East Asians and Americans of East Asian descent.

The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition

Contradiction, Change, and Holism

Edited by Julie Spencer-Rodgers and Kaiping Peng

Chapter 1 - What is Dialectical Thinking? Conceptualization and Measurement
Julie Spencer-Rodgers, Elise Anderson, Christine Ma-Kellams, Carol Wang, Kaiping Peng
Chapter 2 - The Epistemology of Yin-Yang Balancing as the Root of Chinese Cultural Traditions: The Indigenous Features and Geocentric Implications
Peter Ping Li
Chapter 3 - Culture and Lay Theories of Change
Ning Zhang, Li-Jun Ji, and Tieyuan Guo
Chapter 4 - Analytic versus Holistic Cognition: Constructs and Measurement
Minkyung Koo, Jong An Choi, and Incheol Choi
Chapter 5 - Dialecticism Across the Lifespan: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Ontogenetic and Cultural Factors Influencing Dialectical Thinking and Emotional Experience
Igor Grossman
Chapter 6 - The Cultural Neuroscience of Holistic Thinking
Bobby K. Cheon, Ronxiang Tang, Joan Y. Chiao, and Yi-Yuan Tang
Chapter 7 - Judging the World Dialectically vs. Non-Dialectically: Cultural Variations in Online Decision-Making Processes
Takahiko Masuda, Liman Man Wai Li, and Matthew J. Russell
Chapter 8 - Contextualization of Mental Representations and Evaluative Responses: A Theory-Based Analysis of Cultural Differences
Yang Ye and Bertram Gawronski
Chapter 9 - Dialectical Thinking and Creativity from Many Perspectives: Contradiction and Tension
Susannah B.F. Paletz, Kyle Bogue, Ella Miron-Spektor, and Julie Spencer-Rodgers
Chapter 10 - Dialectical Thinking and its Influence in the World: A New Perspective on East Asians' Control Orientations
Joonha Park, Susumu Yamaguchi, Takafumi Sawaumi, and Hiroaki Morio
Chapter 11 - Entitativity Perceptions of Individuals and Groups Across Cultures
Saori Tsukamoto, Yoshihisa Kashima, Nick Haslam, Elise Holland, and Minoru Karasawa
Chapter 12 - Dialecticism in Close Relationships and Marriage
Susan E. Cross and Ben C.P. Lam
Chapter 13 - The Yin and Yang of Attitudes and Related Constructs: Dialectical and Holistic Influences
Christine Ma-Kellams, Julie Spencer-Rodgers, and Kaiping Peng
Chapter 14 - The Dialectical Self: The Internal Consistency, Cross-Situational Consistency, and Temporal Stability of Self-Conception
Sylvia Xiaohua Chen, Julie Spencer-Rodgers, and Kaiping Peng
Chapter 15 - Dialecticism and the Future Self in Cultural Contexts: Relations to Well-Being
Qi Wang, Yubo Hou, and Tracy Gould
Chapter 16 - Contextual and Cultural Factors Influencing Malleable Racial Identity
Julie A. Garcia, Diana T. Sanchez, and Margaret Shih
Chapter 17 - When in Rome Think Like a Roman: Empirical Evidence and Implications of Temporarily Adopting Dialectical Thinking
Ashley M. Votruba and Virginia S.Y. Kwan
Chapter 18 - Dialectical Emotions
Brooke Wilken and Yuri Miyamoto
Chapter 19 - Dialecticism and Mental Health: Toward a Yin-Yang Vision of Well-Being
Y. Joel Wong and Tao Liu
Chapter 20 - The Yin/Yang of Stress: The Link Between Dialectical Thinking and Coping Processes
Hi-Po Bobo Lau and Cecilia Cheng
Chapter 21 - Dialectical Thinking and Attitudes Toward Action/Inaction Beyond East Asia
Ethan Zell, Rong Su, and Dolores Albarracín

The Psychological and Cultural Foundations of East Asian Cognition

Contradiction, Change, and Holism

Edited by Julie Spencer-Rodgers and Kaiping Peng

Author Information

Edited by Julie Spencer-Rodgers, Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic State University, and Edited by Kaiping Peng, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley

Julie Spencer-Rodgers graduated from UC Berkeley and is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Psychology at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She was awarded the Early Career Award from the International Academy of Intercultural Research and the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, of which she is a Fellow.

Kaiping Peng graduated from the University of Michigan, and is the founding Chair of the Psychology Department at Tsinghua University, and an emeritus professor of the University of California, Berkeley. He is one of the most highly cited social psychologists (APS Observer) and is the author of over 140 articles and several monographs.

Contributors:

Dolores Albarracín
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Elise Anderson
Department of Psychology and Child Development
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

Kyle Bogue
Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Sylvia Xiaohua Chen
Department of Applied Social Sciences
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Hung Hom, Hong Kong

Cecilia Cheng
Department of Psychology
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Bobby K. Cheon
Division of Psychology
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore

Joan Y. Chiao
Department of Psychology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL, USA

Incheol Choi
Institute of Psychological Science
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea

Jong An Choi
Seoul National University Business School
Seoul National University
Seoul, South Korea

Susan E. Cross
Department of Psychology
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, USA

Julie A. Garcia
Department of Psychology and Child Development
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

Bertram Gawronski
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA

Tracy Gould
Department of Human Development
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA

Igor Grossman
Department of Psychology
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Tieyuan Guo
Department of Psychology
University of Macau
Taipa, Macau

Nick Haslam
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Elise Holland
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Yubo Hou
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Peking University
Beijing, China

Li-Jun Ji
Department of Psychology
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Minoru Karasawa
Department of Psychology
Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan

Yoshihisa Kashima
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

Minkyung Koo
College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL

Ben C.P. Lam
Department of Psychology
Iowa State University
Ames, IA

Hi-Po Bobo Lau
Department of Psychology
The University of Hong Kong
Pokfulam, Hong Kong

Tao Liu
School of Education
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA

Christine Ma-Kellams
Department of Psychology
University of La Verne
La Verne, CA, USA

Virgina S.Y. Kwan
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA

Takahiko Masuda
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ella Miron-Spektor
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

Yuri Miyamoto
Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI, USA

Hiroaki Morio
Department of Informatics
Kansai University
Suita, Japan

Susannah B.F. Paletz
Center for Advanced Study of Language
University of Maryland
College Park, MD, USA

Joonha Park
Faculty of Management
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business
Nishin, Japan

Kaiping Peng
Department of Psychology
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China

Peter Ping Li
Department of International Economics and Management
Copenhagen Business School
Frederiksburg, Denmark

Matthew J. Russell
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Diana T. Sanchez
Department of Psychology
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Takafumi Sawaumi
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology
The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan

Margaret Shih
Department of Psychology
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Julie Spencer-Rodgers
Department of Psychology and Child Development
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA

Rong Su
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA

Rongxiang Tang
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX, USA

Yi-Yuan Tang
Department of Psychological Sciences
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX, USA;
Department of Psychology
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR, USA

Saori Tsukamoto
Department of Psychology
Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan

Ashley M. Votruba
Department of Psychology
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, USA

Liman Man Wai Li
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Carol Wang
Department of Psychology and Child Development
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

Qi Wang
Department of Human Development
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY, USA

Brooke Wilken
Department of Psychology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN, USA

Y. Joel Wong
School of Education
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN, USA

Susumu Yamaguchi
Department of Sociology
Nara University
Nara, Japan

Yang Ye
Department of Psychology
The University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada

Ethan Zell
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Greensboro, NC, USA

Ning Zhang
Smith School of Business
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada