Some Aspects of Personality of Chinese as Revealed by the Rorschach Test

Abel, Theodora M.; Hsü, Francis L. K.

doi:10.1080/10683402.1949.10381466

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“…Abel and Hsu (1949) found that Chinese Americans tended to give "whole card" responses on the Rorschach whereas Caucasian Americans tended to give responses based on only a part of the card. Ji, Peng, and Nisbett (1999) found that Chinese participants were more capable of detecting covariation among arbitrary events than Americans, but more field dependent as indicated by the fact that they were more influenced by the position of the frame when judging the verticality of the rod in the Rod and Frame Test.…”

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Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

Peng¹,

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1999

American Psychologist

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Chinese ways of dealing with seeming contradictions result in a dialectical or compromise approach-retaining basic elements of opposing perspectives by seeking a "middle way." European-American ways, on the other hand, deriving from a lay version of Aristotelian logic, result in a differentiation model that polarizes contradictory perspectives in an effort to determine which fact or position is correct. Empirical studies showed that dialectical thinking is a form of folk wisdom in Chinese culture: Chinese preferred dialectical proverbs containing seeming contradictions more than did Americans. Chinese were also found to prefer dialectical resolutions to social conflicts, and to prefer dialectical arguments over classical Western logical arguments. Furthermore, when two apparently contradictory propositions were presented, Americans polarized their views and Chinese were moderately accepting of both propositions. Origins of these cultural differences and their implications for human reasoning in general are discussed.

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Section: Holistic Vs Analytic Epistemologiesmentioning

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Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

Peng¹,

Nisbett²

1999

American Psychologist

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“…Most of the studies that have reported cultural differences in visual perception (especially those involving visual attention) assume that these differences are similar to those in higher level processes such as thinking and reasoning (Abel & Hsu, 1949;Chua, Boland, & Nisbett, 2005;Ji, Peng, & Nisbett, 2000;Kitayama, Duffy, Kawamura, & Larsen, 2003;Masuda, Gonzalez, Kwan, & Nisbett, 2008;Masuda & Nisbett, 2001). In this view, Westerners (e.g., Europeans or Americans) tend to use analytic (or focused) processing, analyzing attributes of a salient object independently of its context, and using generic rules about categories to explain and predict its behavior.…”

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Cultural Differences in Visual Search for Geometric Figures

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While some studies suggest cultural differences in visual processing, others do not, possibly because the complexity of their tasks draws upon high-level factors that could obscure such effects. To control for this, we examined cultural differences in visual search for geometric figures, a relatively simple task for which the underlying mechanisms are reasonably well known. We replicated earlier results showing that North Americans had a reliable search asymmetry for line length: Search for long among short lines was faster than vice versa. In contrast, Japanese participants showed no asymmetry. This difference did not appear to be affected by stimulus density. Other kinds of stimuli resulted in other patterns of asymmetry differences, suggesting that these are not due to factors such as analytic/holistic processing but are based instead on the target-detection process. In particular, our results indicate that at least some cultural differences reflect different ways of processing early-level features, possibly in response to environmental factors.

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“…Hallowell (1951) represents, perhaps, the first anthropologist to demonstrate how the Rorschach could assist in measuring acculturation. Abel and Hsu (1949) with the Rorschach show the degree of difference between American and Chinese-born females-and hence the relative influence of membership in either national group.…”

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Symposium: Projective Testing in Ethnography

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1955

American Anthropologist

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Some Aspects of Personality of Chinese as Revealed by the Rorschach Test

Cited by 70 publications

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Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction.

Cultural Differences in Visual Search for Geometric Figures

Symposium: Projective Testing in Ethnography

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