Aurelia Mok

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between bicultural individuals' identity structure and their friendship network and found that more integrated identity structures are associated with larger and more richly interconnected circles of non-Chinese friends.

TL;DR: This paper found that cues to American (vs. Asian) culture increase the novelty of solutions in divergent thinking tasks for Asian-Americans with high bicultural identity integration (assimilative response) yet decrease it for Asians with low BII (contrastive response).

TL;DR: The authors found that BII influences the direction of cultural priming effects (assimilation versus contrast) on the personality dimensions of need for uniqueness and extraversion, and that high BIIs shifted in a culturally assimilative direction, perceiving the self as more uniqueness-seeking and extraverted following American versus Asian priming.

TL;DR: BII is enhanced in contexts facilitating a more global processing style (i.e., smiling, high-level construal, and similarity focus) and contrastive responses to cultural cues are diminished when BII is situationally enhanced.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether exposure to the mixing of a foreign culture with one's heritage culture can evoke need for closure, a motive that engenders ethnocentric social judgments.