Cultural Differences in Expectations of Change and Tolerance for Contradiction: A Decade of Empirical Research.

TitleCultural Differences in Expectations of Change and Tolerance for Contradiction: A Decade of Empirical Research.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsSpencer-Rodgers, Julie, Melissa J. Williams, and Kaiping Peng
JournalPersonality & Social Psychology Review (Sage Publications Inc.)
Volume14
Pagination296 - 312
Date Published2010/08//
ISBN Number10888683
Keywordsattitudes, Buddhism, Confucianism, Culture, culture/ethnicity, Emotion, EVENTS (Philosophy), Holism, lay theories, PSYCHOLOGICAL aspects, self/identity, social cognition, Taoism
Abstract

The article focuses on naïve dialecticism and its implications to cultural psychology. It states that naïve dialecticism is a belief that objects and events in the universe are subjected in a flux of extremes and opposites. It also states that dialecticism encompasses aspects of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism which determine certain facets of the philosophy of holism. Moreover, it states that dialecticism is composed of beliefs specific in a particular culture.

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