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Kim-Pong Tam
Other affiliations: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong
Bio: Kim-Pong Tam is an academic researcher from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural diversity & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 55 publications receiving 2317 citations. Previous affiliations of Kim-Pong Tam include The Chinese University of Hong Kong & University of Hong Kong.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the convergence or divergence of concepts and measures related to the notion of connection to nature has been examined, using one undergraduate Hong Kong Chinese sample and one diverse American sample.
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TL;DR: This paper investigated whether cultural differences in social judgment are mediated by differences in individuals' personal values and beliefs, and found that cultural differences were mediated by participants' perceived consensus as much as by participant's personal views.
Abstract: The authors propose that culture affects people through their perceptions of what is consensually believed. Whereas past research has examined whether cultural differences in social judgment are mediated by differences in individuals' personal values and beliefs, this article investigates whether they are mediated by differences in individuals' perceptions of the views of people around them. The authors propose that individuals who perceive that traditional views are culturally consensual (e.g., Chinese participants who believe that most of their fellows hold collectivistic values) will themselves behave and think in culturally typical ways. Four studies of previously well-established cultural differences found that cultural differences were mediated by participants' perceived consensus as much as by participants' personal views. This held true for cultural differences in the bases of compliance (Study 1), attributional foci (Study 2), and counterfactual thinking styles (Study 3). To tease apart the effect of consensus perception from other possibly associated individual differences, in Study 4, the authors experimentally manipulated which of 2 cultures was salient to bicultural participants and found that judgments were guided by participants' perception of the consensual view of the salient culture.
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TL;DR: This article investigates whether cultural differences in social judgment are mediated by differences in individuals' perceptions of the views of people around them, and proposes that individuals who perceive that traditional views are culturally consensual will themselves behave and think in culturally typical ways.
Abstract: We propose that culture affects people through their perceptions of what is consensually believed. Whereas past research has examined whether cultural differences in social judgment are mediated by differences in individuals’ personal values and beliefs, we investigate whether they are mediated by differences in individuals’ perceptions of the views of people around them. We propose that individuals who perceive that traditional views are culturally consensual (e.g., Chinese participants who believe that most of their fellows hold collectivistic values) will themselves behave and think in culturally typical ways. Four studies of previously well-established cultural differences found that cultural differences were mediated by participants’ perceived consensus as much as by participants’ personal views. This held true for cultural differences in the bases of compliance (Study 1), attributional foci (Study 2), and counterfactual thinking styles (Study 3). To tease apart the effect of consensus perception from other possibly associated individual differences, Study 4 experimentally manipulated which of two cultures was salient to bicultural participants and found that judgments were guided by their perception of the consensual view of the salient culture.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether anthropomorphism of nature has any impact on the way people relate to and behave toward nature and found that when nature is anthropomorphized, people feel more connected to it; this sense of connectedness mediates the association between anthropomorphisms of nature and conservation behavior.
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TL;DR: The notion of dispositional empathy with nature (DEN) as discussed by the authors has been proposed to understand and share the emotional experience of the natural world, and has been shown to predict conservation behavior.
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Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index
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TL;DR: The work of the IPCC Working Group III 5th Assessment report as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive, objective and policy neutral assessment of the current scientific knowledge on mitigating climate change, which has been extensively reviewed by experts and governments to ensure quality and comprehensiveness.
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