The Effect Of Cultural Difference On Correspondence Bias

In order to understand what the differences and similarities in traits mean, we have to understand the value behind them. Values can vary from people, because everybody will not have the same

Cultural bias is something that develops over time. First it "points out differences among cultural groups ranging from social values, rules of conduct, taboos, and beliefs, to language, ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, and more" (Gilstein, 2016, para. 2). Then it incorporates these judgments into decision making and behavior, resulting in unfair treatment of those viewed as different. Bias can be both explicit and implicit, intentional and unintentional.

This leads to ineffective communication between the two different cultured persons, because one person may allow prejudice, opinions that are created about a person based on stereotypes of that culture they belong to, to hinder their conversation, or they may avoid each other all together. What we must do then, is to remember that even though we may fit into a co-culture, we ourselves are individuals, each with our own unique qualities and personalities, and that stereotypes, since they are generalizations about a group, should not be applied to a unique human being. In this paper, I will discuss what kinds of stereotypes I have or used to have about a group of people, and what kind of stereotypes I think that people have of me, based on things such as my age, race, ethnicity, or some other

Our behaviour is also influenced by the presence of other, no matter how much we believe ourselves to be individuals.

How do people behave? What makes us act the way we do? There are as many different answers as there are people. Each person is a unique makeup of individual characteristics which blend together to form the personality, the behavior of the person. We can identify certain broad characteristics of groups of people and apply them to individuals to get an idea of how they will behave in a given situation. This is called stereotyping and, when taken too far, will give a distorted picture of what to expect of a persons behavior. While you can never get a fully accurate picture of how someone will behave based on their demographics and characteristics, you can make certain general guesses that will point

When I look out into the world it does not take long for me to realize that we are all different in a plethora of different ways. We all grow up in many different societies and

There are many factors that shape us into who we are, and who we will become. Some of these factors we can control, while others we cannot. While we are born into many traits of our identities, much of our other behavior is learned. My identity, for example, is “based not only on responses to the question ‘Who am I?’ but also on responses to the question ‘Who am I in relation to others?’” (Allen, 2011, p. 11). My identity and the question of who I am, are both influenced by many aspects of my life, including my hometown, my family, my friends, and my beliefs and moral values.

Out of around 7.347 billion people in the world, there is not one person who is the exact same. We all have physical differences, we all talk differently, think differently, we have different interests, motivated differently, different drives, desires, we all have different goals and dreams.

To an extent we are each born into a social system that, while constantly evolving, is a pre-existing influence on our behavior and outlook and on our understanding of difference” (Spencer p.10).

To understand why our behaviour differs and is not identical to those around us we must look to our own individual identity. Identity and Discourse are reference points for the explanation of why we behave in differing ways. Our identity is sculpted by what we come in to contact with and how things influence us, whether it be another person, a community or an idea. As described by McDonald (2005) an increase in knowledge of the behaviours of the things around us such as the community allows us to better adapt, respond and predict responses to behaviours of others. We also learn to mould our own behaviour to

Even though you and one other might seem or act different, you don’t understand how much you may be alike. “Things are rough all over” (Hinton 117) say Cherry to Ponyboy characters in the novel “The Outsiders” . In the beginning, Ponyboy’s view of the Socs change till the end of the novel because in the beginning, Pony and the Greasers don't like the Socs and they feel like they are different from each other. Towards the end, Pony realizes they are not so different and he doesn't mind the Socs.

Contrasting implicit attitude is explicit attitude, a conscious reaction, with which people do a self-analysis report on the individual’s in sight, creating a stereotype effect. It is within these two factors that our, “cognitive limitations” (Khan, Benda, Stagnaro, 2012), create the mental strategy of, “social categorization” (Stangor 2010), basically stereotyping for the purpose of quick judgements, in order for humans to direct their attention to the important information that impacts their decision making. Children learn from a young age how to categorize individuals, and based off of their parents, they are taught how to label people in the visible act of racism. By continuously passing on our own beliefs, the future generations grow up to implementing these beliefs based on the people they meet. It is a domino effect that continues to grow, and it is one of the reasons why stereotyping has ingrained itself so strongly as a part of the current society in the 21st century. Moving on to the another contributor of stereotyping, is different forms of media, which consist of news channels, social networks, journal articles, etc. Media is a part of people’s everyday lives because of how widespread it is, which leads to it having a substantial amount of influence over people’s opinions and beliefs. Because people have

Different people think, live, view, and judge in distinct ways. That’s what makes life so interesting. The great diversity of the world sometimes has an effect on certain people. Humanity itself has ways of expressing its differences, for example there’s; art, music, fashion, and hobbies, etc. All these are factors that can help identify ones personality, lifestyle, and views on certain topics, etc. This helps define us in a way, it’s a form of expression, whether personal or not.

There are so many things on this earth that are dependent on each other and small actions beforehand can change the way we view someone for a life time. The phenomena of correspondence bias are a huge factor in social psychology in today’s world. Correspondence bias is the idea that people have the tendency to attribute one’s behavior in a certain instance to an essential part of another person’s being, character, and inner values. When in it can all be explained by the environment and the situation before this action had occurred. For example, if you are meeting someone for the first time and they are rude when you speak with them. Then you go off and think this person is a rude and disrespectful person in general, when in reality they were only that way because their wife just cheated on them. So you got their rudeness out of context.

The purpose of the current study is to explore the differences in correspondence bias among cultures of Australian and Malaysian students by using attitude attribution paradigm. The study was an online web based through Facebook advertisement including forty Australian participants (half females and half males) and same amount of Malaysian participants aged between 18-30 years. Depending on the essay content condition, half of the participants were asked to read the essay in favour of capital punishment and other half contradicting capital punishment. The essays were actually written by either Amar (for Malaysian members) or Adam (for Australian members). In no-choice condition, participants were asked to write a 200-words essay in favour (or opposed to) the capital punishment and instructed to ignore their own attitude towards the topic. In choice condition, they were asked to write a 200-words essay either in favour or against capital punishment. Participants then rated the response of the essay whether the writer opposed or was in favour of capital punishment (1 = very much against capital punishment, 7 = very much in favour of capital punishment). The study found that both Australian and Malaysian showed CB, however it was higher in Australian participants of no-choice condition as compared to Malaysian participants. The study has contributed in exploring more in-depth about CB in East Asians as well as Western cultures and has expanded the knowledge on this issue.