Moving to wheat‐farming regions increases analytic thought, but moving to cities does not: A three‐wave longitudinal study.
Does moving to a new environment change people's cultural thought style? We tracked the cultural thought style of 1462 university students at 18 sites over time after they moved across China for college. We tested their holistic thought, which is more common in interdependent cultures. One logical p...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 117; no. 1; pp. 378 - 406 |
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Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle Washington,, USA Department of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, China Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford California,, USA Department of Behavioral Sciences and Psychology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Zhejiang,, China College of Education, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou Zhejiang,, China College of Education, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing Zhejiang,, China School of Psychology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Guangdong,, China Department of Physical Education, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou Zhejiang,, China Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Zhejiang,, China UCSI Graduate Business School, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Department of Economics and Trade, Jiangxi Vocational Technical College of Industry & Trade, Nanchang Jiangxi,, China School of Education Science, Zhoukou Normal University, Zhoukou Henan,, China College of English, Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Shaoxing Zhejiang,, China Department of Management and Human Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing Jiangsu,, China College of English, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China Mental Health Education Center, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou Zhejiang,, China School of Psychology, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou Sichuan,, China College of Advanced Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China su: China Internet access Acculturation Mothers Sex distribution Socioeconomic factors Labor mobility Psychological adaptation Economics Academic achievement Psychology of college students Urbanization Employment Educational attainment Wheat Cognitive testing Research funding Rice Descriptive statistics Ecosystems Sustainability Longitudinal method Data analysis software Comparative studies Temperature Agriculture Thought & thinking sug: subj: Internet access Acculturation Mothers Sex distribution Socioeconomic factors Labor mobility Psychological adaptation Economics Academic achievement Psychology of college students Urbanization Employment Educational attainment China Postharvest Crop Activities (except Cotton Ginning) Rice Farming Breakfast Cereal Manufacturing Wheat Farming Oilseed and grain merchant wholesalers Wheat Cognitive testing Research funding Rice Descriptive statistics Ecosystems Sustainability Longitudinal method Data analysis software Comparative studies Temperature Agriculture Thought & thinking keyword: acculturation cognition culture longitudinal study mobility socioecological factors acculturation cognition culture longitudinal study mobility socioecological factors ab: Does moving to a new environment change people's cultural thought style? We tracked the cultural thought style of 1462 university students at 18 sites over time after they moved across China for college. We tested their holistic thought, which is more common in interdependent cultures. One logical prediction is that students would think less holistically after moving to big cities and more economically developed areas, in line with modernization theory. However, moving to bigger cities or more‐developed areas did not predict decreases in holistic thought. Instead, regions' history of rice versus wheat farming predicted change in thought style. Within just five months, students who moved to wheat‐farming prefectures thought less holistically than people who moved to rice‐farming prefectures. This fits with the idea that rice farming required more coordination and interdependence than wheat farming. In a follow‐up wave three years later, differences widened between students in rice and wheat areas. This three‐wave longitudinal study documents the transmission of cultural differences in cognition, even without personal experience farming. The results suggest that China's farming history is still shaping cultural differences in the modern day. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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