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Individual Pride and Collective Pride: Differences Between Chinese and American Corpora
Conghui Liu1, Jing Li1, Chuansheng Chen2
1Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China.
Frontiers in Psychology
|June 7, 2021
Summary
Americans express more individual pride and less relational pride than Chinese people, based on text analysis. National pride expression varies by genre in cross-cultural comparisons.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Linguistics
Background:
- Understanding cultural variations in pride expression is crucial for cross-cultural psychology.
- Previous research often relied on surveys and lab experiments.
- Text corpora offer a novel, large-scale data source for cultural analysis.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate cross-cultural differences in individual and collective pride between Chinese and Americans.
- To analyze pride expression across different text genres (blogs, news).
- To compare text-based findings with existing survey and experimental research.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of large text corpora from Chinese and American sources.
- Quantitative analysis of the frequency of pride-related terms.
- Comparison of pride item frequencies across cultures and genres.
Main Results:
- American text corpora showed higher absolute frequencies of pride items than Chinese corpora.
- Americans exhibited higher individual pride and lower relational pride frequencies than Chinese across genres.
- National pride expression differed by genre: more in Chinese news, more in American blogs.
Conclusions:
- Text corpora reveal significant cross-cultural differences in pride expression between Chinese and Americans.
- The findings highlight the influence of cultural context and text genre on pride manifestation.
- Results provide a complementary perspective to traditional methods for studying cultural psychology.
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