TY - CHAP
T1 - Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience
T2 - Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World
AU - Cohen, Dov
AU - Hoshino-Browne, Etsuko
AU - Leung, Angela K.y.
N1 - Funding Information:
Work in this paper was supported by funds from the University of Illinois, Swarthmore College, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the University of Waterloo. The authors are grateful to Mark Zanna for his helpful suggestions.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This chapter argues for the importance of understanding the role of culture in structuring people's personal phenomenological experience. Such an understanding is (1) important per se and (2) important for elucidating the feedback loops between culture and self, between macro-level ideology and micro-level experience. To illustrate, we contrast the "outsider" perspective on the self of Asian-Americans with the "insider" perspective on the world for Euro-Americans. We examine (1) the outsider versus insider perspective by looking at the phenomenology of memory imagery, online imagery, visualization and embodiment of narratives, and relational versus egocentric projection; (2) the implications for cultural differences in egocentric biases that derive from dwelling too much in one's own internal experience; and (3) the emergence of developmental differences in characterizing the social world. We argue that the lessons of experience and cultural ideology cocreate each other, and we illustrate this by describing some ways that distinct phenomenological experiences are intimately tied to cultural norms, beliefs, and ideals.
AB - This chapter argues for the importance of understanding the role of culture in structuring people's personal phenomenological experience. Such an understanding is (1) important per se and (2) important for elucidating the feedback loops between culture and self, between macro-level ideology and micro-level experience. To illustrate, we contrast the "outsider" perspective on the self of Asian-Americans with the "insider" perspective on the world for Euro-Americans. We examine (1) the outsider versus insider perspective by looking at the phenomenology of memory imagery, online imagery, visualization and embodiment of narratives, and relational versus egocentric projection; (2) the implications for cultural differences in egocentric biases that derive from dwelling too much in one's own internal experience; and (3) the emergence of developmental differences in characterizing the social world. We argue that the lessons of experience and cultural ideology cocreate each other, and we illustrate this by describing some ways that distinct phenomenological experiences are intimately tied to cultural norms, beliefs, and ideals.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39001-6
DO - 10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39001-6
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:34247207237
SN - 0120152398
SN - 9780120152391
T3 - Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
SP - 1
EP - 67
BT - Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
A2 - Zanna, Mark
ER -