Speaker: 紀(jì)麗君 教授, Queen's University
Time: 2:30pm-4:30pm, 3 November, 2019
Venue: 1113，Wangkezhen Bluiding, Peking University
Abstract: Past research in culture and cognition has shown cultural differences in thinking styles. In particular, North Americans tend to think more analytically, focusing on the focal object in isolation from the context, whereas East Asians tend to think more holistically, attending to the context where an object is located as well as the relationships between objects. Expanding this research to the temporal domain, we have examined whether East Asians’ greater sensitivity to the context would apply to the temporal dimension, where the present is deemed as the focal point and the past/future serve as the context for the present. Consistent with our predictions, we have found that, compared to Euro-Canadians, Chinese participants attend more to the past and future, perceiving the past and future closer to the present and accessing information further into the past and future. Such a broader temporal information focus among Chinese than among Canadians has wide implications in various contexts. I will discuss some of them, such as self-continuity, affective forecasting, and stock decisions.
Bio: 紀(jì)麗君，畢業(yè)于北京大學(xué)心理學(xué)系，取得學(xué)士，碩士學(xué)位。又于美國密西根大學(xué)心理學(xué)系取得博士學(xué)位. 現(xiàn)任加拿大 Queen’s University 終身教授， 博導(dǎo), 曾任社會(huì)及人格心理學(xué)專業(yè)主任。 她的主要研究領(lǐng)域是文化心理學(xué)，側(cè)重文化對(duì)認(rèn)知以及決策的影響。在Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP), Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Personality and Social Psychological Bulletin (PSPB) 等期刊發(fā)表多篇論文。 任行為決策期刊（Journal of Behavioral Decision Making）編委和跨文化心理學(xué)期刊（Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology）副主編。
Host: Prof. Yiqun Gan
2019-10-30