Aligning inside and outside perspectives of the self: A cross-cultural difference in self-perception

• Main Authors: KIM, Young-Hoon, CHIU, Chi-Yue, CHO, Sinhae, AU, Evelyn W. M., KWAK, Sunyoung Nicole
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Asian Americans; cross-cultural differences; parents; positive self-regard; priming; self-perceptions; Cognition and Perception; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1528; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2784/viewcontent/Aligning_inside_outside_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Past research shows that European Americans tend to take a first-person perspective to understand the self and are unlikely to align the inside look with the outside gaze, whereas Asians tend to take a third-person perspective and are likely to shift their inside look in the direction of the outsize...