Culture and social support: who seeks it and why?
- Shelley E. Taylor, D. Sherman, Heejung S. Kim, J. Jarcho, K. Takagi, Melissa S Dunagan
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 September 2004
It is revealed that relationship concerns accounted for the cultural differences in use of support seeking and the potential benefits and liabilities of seeking social support.
Deviance or uniqueness, harmony or conformity? A cultural analysis.
- Heejung S. Kim, H. Markus
- Psychology
- 1 October 1999
Uniqueness has positive connotations of freedom and independence in American culture, whereas conformity has positive connotations of connectedness and harmony in East Asian culture. The present…
Culture and social support.
- Heejung S. Kim, D. Sherman, Shelley E. Taylor
- PsychologyAmerican Psychologist
- 1 September 2008
Evidence that Asians and Asian Americans are more reluctant to explicitly ask for support from close others than are European Americans because they are more concerned about the potentially negative relational consequences of such behaviors is presented.
Culture, distress, and oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) interact to influence emotional support seeking
- Heejung S. Kim, D. Sherman, Shelley E. Taylor
- Psychology, BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 19 August 2010
The findings suggest that OXTR rs53576 is sensitive to input from the social environment, specifically cultural norms regarding emotional social support seeking and indicates that psychological distress and culture are important moderators that shape behavioral outcomes associated with OX TR genotypes.
We talk, therefore we think? A cultural analysis of the effect of talking on thinking.
- Heejung S. Kim
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 1 October 2002
The research examines how the actual psychology of individuals reflects these different cultural assumptions and illuminate the importance of cultural understanding of psychology for a multicultural society.
Pursuit of Comfort and Pursuit of Harmony: Culture, Relationships, and Social Support Seeking
- Heejung S. Kim, D. Sherman, D. Ko, Shelley E. Taylor
- PsychologyPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- 1 December 2006
Findings underscore the importance of culturally divergent relationship patterns in understanding social support transactions and the tendency to seek support and expect social support to be helpful as related to concerns about relationships.
Cultural Differences in the Impact of Social Support on Psychological and Biological Stress Responses
- Shelley E. Taylor, William T. Welch, Heejung S. Kim, D. Sherman
- PsychologyPsychology Science
- 1 September 2007
It is shown that Asians and Asian Americans are psychologically and biologically benefited more by implicit social support than by explicit social support; the reverse is true for European Americans.
"Express yourself": culture and the effect of self-expression on choice.
- Heejung S. Kim, D. Sherman
- PsychologyJournal of Personality and Social Psychology
- 2007
It is shown that European Americans place greater emphasis on self-expression than East Asian Americans, and this difference explained the cultural difference in Study 3.
Oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is related to psychological resources
- Shimon Saphire-Bernstein, B. Way, Heejung S. Kim, D. Sherman, Shelley E. Taylor
- Psychology, BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 31 August 2011
A link between the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) SNP rs53576 and psychological resources is reported, such that carriers of the “A” allele have lower levels of optimism, mastery, and self-esteem, relative to G/G homozygotes.
The Group as a Resource: Reducing Biased Attributions for Group Success and Failure via Group Affirmation
- D. Sherman, Zoe Kinias, B. Major, Heejung S. Kim, M. Prenovost
- PsychologyPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- 1 August 2007
Studies suggest that groups can serve as resources from which people can draw in response to threatening group events, and whether a group affirmation increases acceptance of threatening group information among sports teams and fans is investigated.
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