The neglected C of intercultural relations. Cross-cultural adaptation shapes sojourner representations of locals

Kinga Bierwiaczonek; Sven Waldzus; Karen van der Zee

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611630

The neglected C of intercultural relations. Cross-cultural adaptation shapes sojourner representations of locals

Kinga Bierwiaczonek^*, Sven Waldzus, Karen van der Zee

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Abstract

We investigated, by means of the Reverse Correlation Task (RCT), visual representations of the culturally dominating group of local people held by sojourners as a function of their degree of cross-cultural adaptation. In three studies, using three different methods (reduced RCT, full RCT, conceptual replication) with three independent samples of sojourners and seven independent samples of Portuguese and US-American raters, we gathered clear evidence that poor adaptation goes along with more negative representations of locals. This indicates that sojourner adaptation is reflected, at a social-cognitive level, in the valence of outgroup representations.

Original language	English
Article number	611630
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.611630
Publication status	Published - 23 Mar 2021

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The authors would like to thank Ron Dotsch for his helpful comments on an early version of this work. Funding. This research was partially financed by an individual Ph.D. grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/108049/2015) to KB.

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© Copyright © 2021 Bierwiaczonek, Waldzus and Zee.

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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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cross-cultural adaptation
intercultural relations
outgroup representations
reverse correlation task
stereotype valence

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The neglected C of intercultural relations. Cross-cultural adaptation shapes sojourner representations of locals

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