EAPSI: Cultural Variation Underlying the Impact of Residential Mobility

换一个？的住宅正变得无处不在;与此同时，心理学文献预示着住宅移动的的前景黯淡。 流动性被发现可以预测焦虑，压力，最引人注目的是，预期的孤独感。 简而言之，移动的心态对归属感造成了严重威胁。 现有的大多数关于流动性的研究都集中在来自美国的文化西化样本上。一个相对个人主义和地理上大的地区。没有研究探讨一个地区的文化或地理大小如何影响居民流动的心理影响。 目前的工作，将进行与博士Bobby Cheon在南洋理工大学，旨在解决这一差距的文献。 新加坡是这项研究的理想地点，因为它在经济和语言上与美国相似，但地理面积相对较小，文化多样性也很大，在应对归属感威胁方面的文化差异很大。 例如，在被误解的情况下，西方参与者变得更加接近，而东亚参与者变得更加退缩。 通过这种方式，虽然流动性可能会激励来自个人主义文化的参与者寻求亲和的机会，从而表现出对积极的，接受线索的高度关注，但来自集体主义文化的参与者可能会受到激励，以避免进一步的拒绝，从而变得更加关注负面的社会线索。 本研究将采用文化神经科学的方法来探讨这一问题。新加坡参与者将被随机分配到移动的或稳定的主要条件。然后，他们将完成由积极和消极的社会刺激组成的情绪面部感知任务，同时记录EEG。我们计划专注于N170的活动，这是一个ERP组件，已被发现在面部刺激的结构编码过程中特别活跃。这个NSF EAPSI奖是与新加坡国家研究基金会合作资助的美国研究生奖学金。

Changing one?s residence is becoming ubiquitous; at the same time, the psychological literature portends a bleak future for the residentially mobile. Mobility has been found to predict anxiety, stress, and most strikingly, feelings of anticipated loneliness. In short, a mobile mindset causes a severe threat to belonging. Most of the existing research on mobility has focused on culturally westernized samples from the United States?a relatively individualistic and geographically large region. No studies have explored how the culture or geographic size of a region may influence the psychological impact of residential mobility. The present work, to be conducted with Dr. Bobby Cheon at Nanyang Technological University, aims to address this gap in the literature. Singapore is an ideal location for this research, as it is economically and linguistically similar to the United States, but is relatively small in geographic size, as well as immensely culturally diverse.Cultural differences in responses to threats to belonging are robust. For example, following an instance of being misunderstood, Western participants became more approach-oriented, whereas East Asian participants became more withdrawal-oriented. In this way, although mobility may motivate participants from individualistic cultures to seek affiliative opportunities, and thus demonstrate heightened attention to positive, acceptance cues, participants from collectivistic cultures may become motivated to avoid further rejection, and thus become more attentive to negative social cues. The present work will employ a cultural neuroscience approach to explore this question. Singaporean participants will be randomly assigned to either a mobile or stable prime condition. They will then complete an emotional face perception task consisting of positive and negative social stimuli while EEG is recorded. We plan to focus on the activity of the N170, an ERP component that has been found to be particularly active during the structural encoding of facial stimuli. This NSF EAPSI award is a fellowship to a U.S. graduate student funded in collaboration with the National Research Foundation of Singapore.