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Singh R, Simons JJP, Self WT, Tetlock PE, Zemba Y, Yamaguchi S, Osborn CY, Fisher JD, May J, Kaur S. Association, Culture, and Collective Imprisonment: Tests of a Two-Route Causal-Moral Model. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 2012. [DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2012.674763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- i Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
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Abstract
Prior research has shown that Japanese blame organizational leaders more harshly than Americans: Americans blame organizational leaders based on the behavior of individual leaders, whereas Japanese blame leaders based both on the behavior of individual leaders and that of the organization. This finding can be explained by a cultural difference in cognitive orientation to focus on the causal influence of groups but also by a cultural difference in value to subordinate individual goals to group goals. By asking Japanese and American respondents to make credit judgments for positive organizational incidents, the current work tests these two rival explanations. Results support the view that group-based crediting occurs because of perceivers’ cognitive orientation to perceive group causality. Implications of this cultural difference and the judgmental processes are discussed.
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