Individual and Holistic Information Processing

............................................................................................................................ ii Acknowledgements.................................................................................iii List of Tables.....................................................................................................................v List of Figures.......................................................................................v Introduction........................................................................................................................1 Review of the Literature............................................................................2 Individual and Collectivist Cultures...................................................................... 2 Information Processing: Adding vs. Averaging.................................................... 3 Research Project Overview............................................................................................... 4 Theoretical frameworks................................................................... 5 Religiosity............................................................................................ 5 Connectedness........................................................................................... 6 Preliminary Study: Information Processing: Testing the Averaging Effect................ 6 Sample.......................................................................................6 Method........................................................................................6 Results........................................................................................7 Discussion....................................................................................7 Study 1: Information Processing in Independent vs. Interdependent Cultures............ 8 Sample.......................................................................................8 Hypothesis...................................................................................8 Method.......................................................................................9 Results........................................................................................9 Discussion....................................................................................10 Study 2: Cultural Priming......................................................................... 11 Sample........................................................................................11 Hypothesis....................................................................................11 Method.......................................................................................12 Results........................................................................................15 Main Effects and Interactions ............................................................17 Discussion....................................................................................18 Reliability and Validity of the Data...............................................................19 References........................................................................................................................... 21 Vita........................................................................................................................................ 24