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Seeing is believing: how participants in different subcultures judge people's credulity
Author(s) -
Mitchell Peter,
Souglidou Marianna,
Mills Laura,
Ziegler Fenja
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.378
Subject(s) - psychology , subculture (biology) , collectivism , social psychology , individualism , object (grammar) , individualistic culture , law , linguistics , philosophy , botany , political science , biology
We presented a scenario in which a protagonist saw an object in Location A but later heard a message saying it was in Location B. Participants judged where the protagonist believed the object was. In one condition, participants had additional information that the message was true. Those from an individualistic subculture tended to judge that the protagonist believed the message when they (the participants) knew it was true but disbelieved the message when they had no additional information. In contrast, participants from a collectivist subculture tended to judge that the protagonist believed the message in both circumstances. The results suggest that culture is related with subtle aspects of understanding the mind and especially how people evaluate messages. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.