Cross Cultural Differences in Biased Cognition

偏见认知中的跨文化差异

• 批准号: ES/K01031X/1
• 负责人: Jenny Yiend
• 金额: $ 10.24万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK01031X%2F1
• 关键词: Cross; Cultural; Differences; Biased; Cognition

Lay SummaryThe way in which we process information in the world around us has a significant effect on our health and well being. For example, some people are more prone than others to notice potential dangers, to remember bad things from the past and assume the worst, when the meaning of an event or comment is uncertain. These tendencies are called negative cognitive biases and can lead to low mood and poor quality of life. They also make people vulnerable to mental illnesses. In contrast, those with positive cognitive biases tend to function well and remain healthy. To date most of this work has been conducted on white, western populations and we do not know whether similar cognitive biases exist in Eastern cultures. This project will examine cognitive biases in Eastern (Hong Kong nationals ) and Western (UK nationals) people to see whether there are any differences between the two. It will also examine what happens to cognitive biases when someone migrates to a different culture. This will tell us whether influences from the society and culture around us have any effect on our cognitive biases. Finally the project will consider how much our own cognitive biases are inherited from our parents. Together these results will tell us whether the known good and bad effects of cognitive biases apply to non Western cultural groups as well, and how much cognitive biases are decided by our genes or our environment.

摘要我们处理周围世界信息的方式对我们的健康和幸福有很大的影响。例如，当事件或评论的意义不确定时，一些人比其他人更容易注意到潜在的危险，更容易记住过去的不好的事情，并假设最坏的情况。这些倾向被称为负面认知偏差，可能会导致情绪低落和生活质量下降。它们还使人们容易受到精神疾病的影响。相比之下，那些有积极认知偏见的人往往功能良好，保持健康。到目前为止，这项研究的大部分都是针对西方白人群体进行的，我们不知道东方文化中是否存在类似的认知偏见。这个项目将研究东方人(香港人)和西方人(英国人)的认知偏差，看看两者之间是否有任何差异。它还将研究当一个人迁移到不同的文化时，认知偏见会发生什么。这将告诉我们，我们周围的社会和文化的影响是否会对我们的认知偏差产生影响。最后，该项目将考虑我们自己的认知偏差在多大程度上是从父母那里继承下来的。这些结果将告诉我们，认知偏差已知的好的和坏的影响是否也适用于非西方文化群体，以及认知偏差在多大程度上由我们的基因或环境决定。

项目成果

Mechanisms of Selective Attention in Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

• DOI: 10.1177/2167702614545216
• 发表时间: 2015-09-01
• 期刊: Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science
• 作者: Yiend J;Mathews A;Burns T;Dutton K;Fernández-Martín A;Georgiou GA;Luckie M;Rose A;Russo R;Fox E
• 通讯作者: Fox E

Magnitude of negative interpretation bias depends on severity of depression

• DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2016.05.007
• 发表时间: 2016-08-01
• 期刊: BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Lee, Jong-Sun;Mathews, Andrew;Yiend, Jenny
• 通讯作者: Yiend, Jenny

Bilingual comparison of Mandarin and English cognitive bias tasks.

• DOI: 10.3758/s13428-017-0871-0
• 发表时间: 2018-03
• 期刊: Behavior research methods
• 影响因子: 5.4
• 作者: Smith L;Leung WG;Crane B;Parkinson B;Toulopoulou T;Yiend J
• 通讯作者: Yiend J

Using cognitive biases to compare health and well-being in Western and Eastern Cultures

利用认知偏差比较东西方文化中的健康和福祉

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Smith, L.

Biased cognition in East Asian and Western cultures.

东亚和西方文化中的认知偏差。

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223358
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: PloS one
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Yiend J