Prior research shows that North Americans and Western Europeans react to threats with defensive strategies based on behavioral approach vs. inhibition systems (BAS/ BIS)-i.e., a desire to approach a goal or to avoid a threat. In the present research, we explored whether this phenomenon is more pronounced in tight cultures (e.g., Germany) as compared to loose cultures (e.g., Russia), testing how Germans and Russians respond to societal threats. We expected that due to the higher levels of cultural tightness, Germans would show stronger defensive reactions to threats than Russians. Additionally, we investigated the role of need for tightness (i.e., need for strict regulation of social order) in threat management processes. In Study 1, Germans recalling violations of societal norms produced stronger rightward bias on the line bisection task than Russians, indicative of greater BAS activation in Germans than in Russians. In Study 2, we used frontal alpha asymmetry, providing the first cross-cultural test of BIS-BAS reactions utilizing neuronal markers. In this study, presentation of societal threat in a video portraying Islamic immigration as a largescale violation of social norms led to higher BIS activation among Germans than among Russians, if their need for tightness was high. We discuss the role of tightness, need for tightness, and type of threat for cross-cultural particularities of threatinduced motivational shifts.
Целью исследования было выявление особенностей системной организации поведения у субъек-тов с аналитическим и холистическим когнитивными стилями в процессе индивидуального и группо-вого выполнения задачи выбора при разных формах социального взаимодействия. Предполагалось, что разные формы социального взаимодействия и разные типы ментальности (холистический и ана-литический когнитивные стили) окажутся связанными. Участники исследования (n = 78) вовлека-*Апанович В. В. Магистрант, Государственный академический университет гуманитарных наук.
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