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Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect
Recent research has discovered a robust bias towards the processing of self-relevant information in perceptual matching. Self-associated stimuli are processed faster and more accurately than other-associated stimuli. Priming of independent or interdependent self-construal can dynamically modulate se...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8869382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200296 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12020045 |
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author | Jiang, Mengyin Sui, Jie |
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description | Recent research has discovered a robust bias towards the processing of self-relevant information in perceptual matching. Self-associated stimuli are processed faster and more accurately than other-associated stimuli. Priming of independent or interdependent self-construal can dynamically modulate self-biases in high-level cognitive tasks. This study explored whether priming of independent/interdependent mindsets can modulate the self-bias effect in perceptual matching. In two experiments, British participants performed a priming task (Experiment 1 using a word-search task—an implicit priming approach, Experiment 2 with a reflective thinking task—an explicit priming method) immediately followed by a perceptual matching task, where they first learned to associate geometric shapes with labels (e.g., circle is you, square is friend, triangle is stranger) and then made judgments on whether shape-label pairs displayed on-screen were the correct associations or not. The analysis in Experiment 1 revealed that priming the interdependent self-construal led to a reduced self-bias effect in perceptual matching in participants who had low bias compared to those with high bias in the neutral/non-priming condition. In contrast, priming the independent self-construal did not modulate the self-bias in perceptual matching. The effects were replicated in Experiment 2. The results indicate that the self is a dynamic concept that can modulate perceptual processing by accessing different cultural contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-88693822022-02-25 Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect Jiang, Mengyin Sui, Jie Behav Sci (Basel) Article Recent research has discovered a robust bias towards the processing of self-relevant information in perceptual matching. Self-associated stimuli are processed faster and more accurately than other-associated stimuli. Priming of independent or interdependent self-construal can dynamically modulate self-biases in high-level cognitive tasks. This study explored whether priming of independent/interdependent mindsets can modulate the self-bias effect in perceptual matching. In two experiments, British participants performed a priming task (Experiment 1 using a word-search task—an implicit priming approach, Experiment 2 with a reflective thinking task—an explicit priming method) immediately followed by a perceptual matching task, where they first learned to associate geometric shapes with labels (e.g., circle is you, square is friend, triangle is stranger) and then made judgments on whether shape-label pairs displayed on-screen were the correct associations or not. The analysis in Experiment 1 revealed that priming the interdependent self-construal led to a reduced self-bias effect in perceptual matching in participants who had low bias compared to those with high bias in the neutral/non-priming condition. In contrast, priming the independent self-construal did not modulate the self-bias in perceptual matching. The effects were replicated in Experiment 2. The results indicate that the self is a dynamic concept that can modulate perceptual processing by accessing different cultural contexts. MDPI 2022-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8869382/ /pubmed/35200296 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12020045 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Jiang, Mengyin Sui, Jie Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect |
title | Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect |
title_full | Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect |
title_fullStr | Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect |
title_full_unstemmed | Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect |
title_short | Bicultural Minds: A Cultural Priming Approach to the Self-Bias Effect |
title_sort | bicultural minds: a cultural priming approach to the self-bias effect |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8869382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35200296 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12020045 |
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