Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)

Cultural Variation in Perceiving Implied Competition

Authors
Lu Sun1, *
1College of Art and Science, Boston University, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: lydiasun@bu.edu
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Lu Sun
Available Online 11 July 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_109How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Competition; Cooperation; Cultural Psychology; Group interaction
Abstract

Various cultures breed different attitudes and interpretations of competition. Previous research tends to associate characteristics such as competitive and self-centered with individualists, while linking collectivists with cooperation and unity. Yet, recent studies indicate that individuals from collectivistic societies compete more intensely and covertly than individualists. Regarding the controversial findings, this paper proposes a potential laboratory experiment with an academic scenario to investigate the cultural variations in perceiving competition when there’s no explicit signaling of competitive relationship. The prediction proposes that 1) collectivists might retain a stronger baseline sense of competition across group contexts, 2) collectivists’ perceived extent of competition would be highest when they rate ingroup interactions, and 3) the probability of future cooperative behaviors might be negatively associated with perceived competition level.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 July 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_109
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-062-6_109How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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