کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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926941 | 921918 | 2012 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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There is substantial evidence that populations in the Western world exhibit a local bias compared to East Asian populations that is widely ascribed to a difference between individualistic and collectivist societies. However, we report that traditional Himba – a remote interdependent society – exhibit a strong local bias compared to both Japanese and British participants in the Ebbinghaus illusion and in a similarity-matching task with hierarchical figures. Critically, we measured the effect of exposure to an urban environment on local bias in the Himba. Even a brief exposure to an urban environment caused a shift in processing style: the local bias was reduced in traditional Himba who had visited a local town and even more reduced in urbanised Himba who had moved to that town on a permanent basis. We therefore propose that exposure to an urban environment contributes to the global bias found in Western and Japanese populations.
► Traditional Himba exhibit a local visuospatial bias compared to British and Japanese.
► This local bias decreases with increasing exposure to an urban environment.
► Even a single exposure can decrease the local bias.
► Changes in local bias are found in both the Ebbinghaus illusion and a Navon task.
► Cluttered urban environments contribute to the global bias found in British/Japanese.
Journal: Cognition - Volume 122, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 80–85