Are there advantages to believing in fate? the belief in negotiating with fate when faced with constraints

• Main Authors: Au, Evelyn W. M., Savani, Krishna
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Business::General; Negotiating With Fate; Agency
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/142470
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Is cultural knowledge unique to a culture and inaccessible to other cultures, or is it a tool that can be recruited by individuals outside of that culture when the situation renders it relevant? As one test of this idea, we explored whether the applicability and benefits of a lay belief that origina...