Stress reactivity and sociocultural learning: More stress-reactive individuals are quicker at learning sociocultural norms from experiential feedback

• Main Authors: MADAN, Shilpa, SAVANI, Krishna, MEHTA, Pranjal H., PHUA, Desiree Y., HONG, Ying-Yi, MORRIS, Michael W.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: stress reactivity; culture; learning; norms; cortisol; Organizational Behavior and Theory; Organization Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7631; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8630/viewcontent/Madan_et_al.__AAM_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

When interacting with others in unfamiliar sociocultural settings, people need to learn the norms guiding appropriate behavior. The present research investigates an individual difference that helps this kind of learning: stress reactivity. Interactions in an unfamiliar sociocultural setting are stre...