Intergroup conflicts: When interdependent individuals feel less dialectical than independent individuals

Lu, Minjie; Fung, Helene H.; Doosje, Bertjan

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.09.027

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“…For example, RISC scale allows a better understanding of behaviours such as communication (e.g. Singelis & Brown, 1995), conflict management (e.g., Lu, Fung, & Doosje, 2017), social relationships and relationships within social networks such as Facebook (Chang, 2015) and even addiction behaviours such as tobacco consumption (Fifita, Smith, & Fernandez, 2015) or financial and social risk taking (e.g., Mandel, 2003). Relational interdependent self-construal is an important dimension of gender differences (Maddux & Brewer, 2005;Kashima et al, 1995) and is useful, for example, for understanding social-evaluative concerns (Russel, Gould, & Fergus, 2017).…”

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Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Relational Interdependent Self –Construal scale

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O Relational Interdependent Self-construal (RISC) pode ser descrito como o grau em que os indivíduos se definem em termos das suas relações íntimas. Devido à importância deste constructo e da sua medida, a escala RISC, em processos individuais e sociais, realizámos dois estudos de validação da escala para a população Portuguesa. A escala RISC, unidimensional e composta por 11 itens, foi traduzida para o português e as suas propriedades psicométricas foram analisadas com duas amostras: 399 participantes para o estudo 1 (62.9% mulheres e 30.8% homens, com idades entre os 18 e os 59 anos - M = 26.4; DP = 8.90) e 292 participantes para o estudo 2 (57.9% mulheres e 42.1% homens, com idades entre os 17 e os 59 anos - M = 26.37, DP = 8.87). Os resultados confirmaram a estrutura unidimensional da escala, mostrando bons valores de validade e de ajustamento do modelo (CFI = 0.92; TLI = 0.87; NFI = 0.89; RMSEA = 0.09). A escala RISC-P mostrou ser invariante entre géneros, observando-se que as mulheres apresentam valores mais elevados de RISC. Os bons indicadores psicométricos e de ajustamento do modelo validam o uso desta versão para a população Portuguesa em muitas áreas de investigação (e.g., controlo da desejabilidade social, análise de validade convergente e preditiva).

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“…In addition to the Mouse Paradigm, participants also completed the Dialectical Self Scale (DSS), a paper-and-pencil measure of naïve dialecticism in the domain of self-perception ( Spencer-Rodgers et al, 2018a , b ). The DSS has been applied to research in various areas including the self ( Spencer-Rodgers et al, 2004 ; Chen et al, 2006 , 2013 ), personality ( Fetvadjiev et al, 2018a , b ; Na et al, 2020 ), emotions ( Sims et al, 2015 ; Hideg and Kleef, 2017 ; Lu et al, 2017b ), intergroup conflicts ( Lu et al, 2017a , 2020 ), resilience capacity ( Zheng et al, 2020 ), attitudes toward social issues ( Hideg and Ferris, 2017 ; Lee et al, 2020 ; Li et al, 2020 ), employee performance ( Bai et al, 2015 ), and causal attributions ( Li et al, 2016 ). The original version in English was translated into Japanese via back translation ( Brislin, 1980 ).…”

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Of Mice and Culture: How Beliefs About Knowing Affect Habits of Thinking

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Recent research suggests that individuals from East Asian and Western cultures differ in the degree to which they hold a folk world view known as naïve dialecticism, which is characterized by tolerance for contradiction, expectation of change, and cognitive holism. The current research utilizes the Mouse Paradigm to investigate the dynamic nature of naïve dialecticism in real time by measuring individuals’ fluctuations in judgment during the process of contemplation. The results showed cultural differences in dynamic measures of evaluation process: Japanese participants took more time to stabilize their thought and showed more fluctuations in their judgment than American participants. These cultural differences were fully mediated by individual differences in levels of naïve dialecticism as measured by the level of dialectical self-views. Implications for cultural psychology and the psychology of dialectical thinking are discussed.

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“…In fact, past research has found that the well-documented positive association between dialectical thinking and mixed emotion is not evident under negative contexts. Presumably, negative events activate a strong motivation of up-regulating positive emotions via positive appraisals to avoid negative experience, making both dialectical and nondialectical individuals experience a similar level of positive emotions (Lu, Fung, & Doosje, 2017; Lu et al, 2017; Miyamoto, Uchida, & Ellsworth, 2010). In other words, under a negative context, nondialectical thinkers do not differ from dialectical thinkers in their motivation to upregulate positive emotions.…”

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Is positive emotion an amplifier or a buffer? It depends: Dialectical thinking moderates the impact of positive emotion on intergroup conflicts.

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Positive emotions have been shown to shape individuals' reactions to intergroup conflicts, but the exact mechanism remains unknown. The current research hypothesizes that the impact of positive emotions would be moderated by dialectical thinking: beliefs about accepting contradiction and change. Experiencing positive emotions in an intergroup conflict may be perceived as unacceptable and evokes discomfort among nondialectical individuals, amplifying the negative reactions toward outgroup members. In contrast, because dialectical thinkers accept contradictory emotions, positive emotions may buffer against the adverse consequences of intergroup provocations. Study 1 confirmed this hypothesis by examining Chinese emotions in a real-life and a lab-induced intergroup conflict. Study 2 recruited Western participants and demonstrated that the moderating effect of dialectical thinking was evident only under a conflict-related context. Study 3 confirmed the causality by manipulating dialectical thinking in a historically enduring conflict. These findings suggest that enhancing dialectical thinking maximized the buffering effect of positive emotion against intergroup conflict.

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Intergroup conflicts: When interdependent individuals feel less dialectical than independent individuals

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Relational Interdependent Self –Construal scale

Psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Relational Interdependent Self –Construal scale

Of Mice and Culture: How Beliefs About Knowing Affect Habits of Thinking

Is positive emotion an amplifier or a buffer? It depends: Dialectical thinking moderates the impact of positive emotion on intergroup conflicts.

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