Exposure to an Urban Environment Alters the Local Bias of a Remote Culture

Autor/inn/en	Caparos, Serge; Ahmed, Lubna; Bremner, Andrew J.; de Fockert, Jan W.; Linnell, Karina J.; Davidoff, Jules
Titel	Exposure to an Urban Environment Alters the Local Bias of a Remote Culture
Quelle	In: Cognition, 122 (2012) 1, S.80-85 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.013
Schlagwörter	Urban Environment; Cultural Differences; Individualism; Task Analysis; Foreign Countries; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Style; Measurement; Bias; Migration; Asians; Western Civilization; Japan; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stadtökologie; Kultureller Unterschied; Individualismus; Aufgabenanalyse; Ausland; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Messverfahren; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Großbritannien
Abstract	There is substantial evidence that populations in the Western world exhibit a local bias compared to East Asian populations that is widely ascribed to a difference between individualistic and collectivist societies. However, we report that traditional Himba--a remote interdependent society--exhibit a strong local bias compared to both Japanese and British participants in the Ebbinghaus illusion and in a similarity-matching task with hierarchical figures. Critically, we measured the effect of exposure to an urban environment on local bias in the Himba. Even a brief exposure to an urban environment caused a shift in processing style: the local bias was reduced in traditional Himba who had visited a local town and even more reduced in urbanised Himba who had moved to that town on a permanent basis. We therefore propose that exposure to an urban environment contributes to the global bias found in Western and Japanese populations. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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