A survey found that American graduate students tend to use an individual coping strategy (self-serving attributions) more than Japanese students in dealing with success and failure experiences related to ability. However, the findings suggest that different cultural groups react similarly in the face of obvious situational information. (KH)

Presents a framework in which notions of cross-cultural equivalence are related to the abstraction-concreteness and the universality-cultural difference continua. Uses this framework to compare strategies proposed to improve cross-cultural measurement of characteristics and behavior other than ability and aptitude. Suggests that the adoption of…

Cross-Cultural psychology refers to the collective efforts of researchers who work among people who live in different societies, with different languages and different forms of government. There are a number of benefits to the study of human behavior which can be accrued by carrying out research in various cultures, largely concerned with better…

Mainstream and Hispanic naval recruits responded to a role differential consisting of 30 roles judged on 20 behavior scales taken from a previous study of American and Greek role perceptions. Results were compared with data from a role differential specifically designed for Hispanic and mainstream recruits. (GC)

Examines the question of whether cultural and ethnic groups differ in their extreme response style. Studies questionnaire responses of Hispanic and non-Hispanic male Navy recruits and suggests that differences in extreme response style may be attributable to differences in judgment style across the two cultural groups. (MW)

An analysis of the responses of 1,614 adult subjects from 10 cultures show that the Leung-Bond procedure provides ways of extracting both strong and weak etics relevant to individualism and weak etics relevant to collectivism. The most complete picture is obtained when both etics and emics are examined. (SLD)

There is no a priori basis for assuming that theories of social psychology are universal. For theories to be universal, the meaning of the stimulus would have to be consistent across cultures, but this cannot be taken for granted. Cross-cultural variations in social behavior may be "surface" expressions of deep structure norms that are universal.…

Survey responses from 1,620 subjects in the United States, Greece, India, Peru, and Taiwan provide information on cross-cultural role perceptions. Study data reveal (1) the principal factors accounting for the variance in role perception in each culture, (2) those factors that are the same in all cultures, (3) the equivalent factor scores that…