Current research on moral identity shows that moral identity predicts moral action in Western cultures but not in non-Western cultures. The present paper argues that this may be due to the fact that the concept of moral identity is culturally biased. In order to remedy this situation, we argue that researchers should broaden their scopes of inquiry by adding a cultural lens to their studies of ...

Abstrad—Recent studies have documented that performance in u domnifi is hindered when individuals feel that a sociocultiiral group to which they belong is negatively stereotyped in that domain. We report that implicit activation of a social identity can facilitate cis well as impede performance on a quantitative task. When a particular social identity was made salient ai an implicit level, perf...

Ethnic socialization and ethnic identity have been related to positive outcomes, but little research has examined these associations longitudinally. This three-wave study prospectively linked socialization messages at Time 1, ethnic identity and American identity at Time 2, and self-esteem and depressive symptoms at Time 3 in 147 (58% female; 25% first-generation) Asian-American adolescents. Th...

We utilized qualitative methods to explore ethnic and cultural identity among urban Southwestern American Indian youth, parents, and elders. Twenty-four respondents ranging in age from approximately 13 to 90 years were interviewed in focus groups divided by age. Six major themes and seventeen sub-themes related to tribal and pan-American Indian ethnic identity were identified. Two important fin...

Regarding the belief that willingness to communicate is strongly tied with developing some insights into the L2 culture, such a connection may not be always positive and the issue of cultural attachment and identity may sometimes function as a hindrance. Individuals are believed to be highly emotional in terms of “religion and spirituality", among other components of cultural identity. This stu...

The purpose of the article is a comparative analysis unification processes, functioning national consciousness, realities culture emerging in ethno-culture new Kazakhstan. In modernization and civilizational practice modern state, consciousness plays special role as an expert relation to universals culture: we are talking about echoes universal values worldview ethnic group. Testing these also ...