Title: Cultural Understandings of Personality | Introduction to Psychology
Headings: Cultural Understandings of Personality
Cultural Understandings of Personality
Learning Objectives
PERSONALITY IN INDIVIDUALIST AND COLLECTIVIST CULTURES
APPROACHES TO STUDYING PERSONALITY IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT
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Content: In fact, there is evidence that the strength of personality traits varies across cultures. Individualist cultures and collectivist cultures place emphasis on different basic values. People who live in individualist cultures tend to believe that independence, competition, and personal achievement are important. People who live in collectivist cultures value social harmony, respectfulness, and group needs over individual needs. There are three approaches that are can be used to study personality in a cultural context, the cultural-comparative approach, the indigenous approach, and the combined approach, which incorporates both elements of both views. Open Assessments
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The United States is considered a ________ culture. collectivistic
individualist
traditional
nontraditional
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1. Why might it be important to consider cultural influences on personality? Personal Application Question
2. According to the work of Rentfrow and colleagues, personalities are not randomly distributed.