People from the U.S. and China think about their personal and collective future differently.
Autobiographical memory
Collective memory
Culture
Emotion
Memory
Journal
Memory & cognition
ISSN: 1532-5946
Titre abrégé: Mem Cognit
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0357443
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2023
01 2023
Historique:
accepted:
05
07
2022
pubmed:
21
7
2022
medline:
25
2
2023
entrez:
20
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We investigated how people think about their personal life and their country by testing how participants in the U.S. and China think about personal and collective events in the past and future. Using a fluency task, we replicated prior research in showing that participants in the U.S. had a positivity bias toward their personal future and a negativity bias toward their country's future. In contrast, participants in China did not display a positivity or negativity bias toward either their personal or collective future. This result suggests that the valence dissociation between personal and collective future thinking is not universal. Additionally, when people considered the past in addition to the future, they displayed similar valence patterns for both temporal periods, providing evidence that people think about the past and the future similarly. We suggest political and cultural differences (such as dialectical thought) as potential explanations for the differences between countries in future thinking and memory.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35859103
doi: 10.3758/s13421-022-01344-9
pii: 10.3758/s13421-022-01344-9
pmc: PMC9298710
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
87-100Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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