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Toward a social psychology of globalization
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In this paper, the authors address the questions of how people make sense of and respond to globalization and its sociocultural ramifications; how people defend the integrity of their heritage cultural identities against the "culturally erosive" effects of globalization, and how individuals harness creative insights from their interactions with global cultures.Abstract:
In most parts of the world, globalization has become an unstoppable and potent force that impacts everyday life and international relations. The articles in this issue draw on theoretical insights from diverse perspectives (clinical psychology, consumer research, organizational behavior, political psychology, and cultural psychology) to offer nuanced understanding of individuals’ psychological reactions to globalization in different parts of the world (Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Mainland China, Singapore, Switzerland, United States, Taiwan). These articles address the questions of how people make sense of and respond to globalization and its sociocultural ramifications; how people defend the integrity of their heritage cultural identities against the “culturally erosive” effects of globalization, and how individuals harness creative insights from their interactions with global cultures. The new theoretical insights and revealing empirical analyses presented in this issue set the stage for an emergent interdisciplinary inquiry into the psychology of globalization.read more
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Globalization, Psychology, and Social Issues Research:An Introduction and Conceptual Framework
Jeannette Diaz,Sabrina Zirkel +1 more
TL;DR: The Intersection of Psychology and Globalization as discussed by the authors provides both theoretical and applied rationale for why the discipline of psychology would be well served by entering into the academic discourse on globalization and presents a multifaceted definition of globalization and review extant social science research on globalization that speaks to the psychological implications of globalization.
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Country Contexts and Individuals’ Climate Change Mitigating Behaviors: A Comparison of U.S. Versus German Individuals’ Efforts to Reduce Energy Use
Janet K. Swim,Julia C. Becker +1 more
Abstract: Countries can set the stage for residents’ behaviors via government and business policies and the values held within countries. This study examines German versus U.S. residents’ (predominantly students’) efforts to engage in direct and indirect behaviors that lessen their personal contribution to greenhouse gases. Consistent with country level differences in mitigation efforts, German students were more likely to engage in direct and indirect energy reduction behaviors. We propose a mediation model explaining the relation between country and likelihood of engaging in these behaviors. As expected, Germans showed more energy reduction behaviors because they were more likely to endorse biospheric environmental concerns, less likely to endorse egoistic environmental concerns, less likely to think that personal costs of energy reduction behaviors were important, and more likely to think ethical considerations were important. However, we found that cost–benefit considerations played less of a role in indirect than direct energy reduction behaviors.
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When Knowledge Is a Double-Edged Sword: Contact, Media Exposure, and American China Policy Preferences
TL;DR: The authors found that knowledge about China and prejudice against the Chinese people and the Chinese government would mediate the relationship between contact and media exposure on the one hand, and U.S. China policy preferences on the other.
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Intercultural non-conscious influences: Prosocial effects of Buddhist priming on Westerners of Christian tradition
Magali Clobert,Vassilis Saroglou +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether people (Westerners of Christian tradition) are primed with concepts of a different from their own religious cultural tradition (Buddhist and Islamic) and found that priming Islam had no effect on prosociality or prejudice.
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A Dual Process Model of attitudes toward immigration: Predicting intergroup and international relations with China
Nicole Satherley,Chris G. Sibley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate the Dual Process Model of Ideology and Prejudice to examine the motivations associated with attitudes toward intergroup relations with Chinese people in New Zealand.
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