Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters

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dc.contributor.authorIgor Grossmann
dc.contributor.authorMayumi Karasawa
dc.contributor.authorSatoko Izumi
dc.contributor.authorJinkyung Na
dc.contributor.authorMichael E. W. Varnum
dc.contributor.authorShinobu Kitayama
dc.contributor.authorRichard E. Nisbett
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T19:53:19Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:32:46Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T19:53:19Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:32:46Z
dc.date.issued2012-10-01
dc.description.abstractPeople from different cultures vary in the ways they approach social conflicts, with Japanese being more motivated to maintain interpersonal harmony and avoid conflicts than Americans are. Such cultural differences have developmental consequences for reasoning about social conflict. In the study reported here, we interviewed random samples of Americans from the Midwest United States and Japanese from the larger Tokyo area about their reactions to stories of intergroup and interpersonal conflicts. Responses showed that wisdom (e.g., recognition of multiple perspectives, the limits of personal knowledge, and the importance of compromise) increased with increasing age among Americans, but older age was not associated with wiser responses among Japanese. Younger and middle-aged Japanese showed greater use of wise-reasoning strategies than younger and middle-aged Americans did. This cultural difference was weaker for older participants’ reactions to interpersonal conflicts and was actually reversed for intergroup conflicts. This research has important implications for the study of aging, cultural psychology, and wisdom.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnoteshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guidelinesen_US
dc.identifier.citationGrossmann, I., Karasawa, M., Izumi, S., Na, J., Varnum, M. E. W., Kitayama, S., & Nisbett, R. E. (2012). Aging and Wisdom: Culture Matters. Psychological Science, 23(10), 1059-1066. doi: 10.1177/0956797612446025en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0956797612446025en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/25191
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPsychological Science
dc.rights.requestablefalseen_US
dc.subjectcognitive abilityen_US
dc.subjectcross-cultural differencesen_US
dc.subjectcognitive developmenten_US
dc.subjectagingen_US
dc.subjectadult developmenten_US
dc.subjectwisdomen_US
dc.subjectcultureen_US
dc.subjectconflict resolutionen_US
dc.subjectreasoningen_US
dc.titleAging and Wisdom: Culture Mattersen_US
dc.typeResearch Articleen_US

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