Since the publication of Markus and Kitayama's pivotal article on culture and the self, the
concepts of independent, relational, and interdependent self-construal have become …

Since the publication of Peng and Nisbett's seminal paper on dialectical thinking, a
substantial amount of empirical research has replicated and expanded on the core finding …

This chapter introduces readers to a basic model and framework with which to understand
how human cultures influence, and are influenced by, psychological processes and …

A central tenet of many prominent philosophical and psychological traditions is that personal
authenticity facilitates psychological well-being. This idea, however, is at odds with …

The Five-Factor Model Across Cultures was designed to further an understanding of the
interrelations between personality and culture by examining the dominant paradigm for …

Prior research on the effects of personality on the variability of states has either not assessed
states in real-life contexts or not incorporated meaningful contextual information when …

Accumulating evidence suggests that North Americans tend to focus on central objects
whereas East Asians tend to pay more attention to contextual information in a visual scene …

The core premise of this article is that it is scientifically informative and psychologically
meaningful to conceptualize and assess authenticity in context. I begin by providing some …

Objective We applied the concept of naïve dialecticism (Peng & Nisbett,), which
characterizes E ast A sians' greater tendency to encompass contradictory, ever‐changing …

Self-concept consistency is viewed as central to authenticity and adjustment in Western
cultures. The authors propose that the implications of self-concept consistency depend on …