With the rapid development of global economic integration, business exchanges between domestic and foreign enterprises are becoming more frequent. Due to cultural differences, way negotiation has also changed a lot. As form interpersonal communication, inevitably involves communication methods different countries, nationalities, social backgrounds etiquette cultures, thus producing very rich me...

It has been suggested that Westerners are more inclined than Easterners to endorse dispositionism. To help explain what produces this cultural difference, I examined the responses of Japanese and American students to determine whether levels of general trust, which is the expectation of benign or cooperative behavior based on the goodwill of another person (Yamagishi & Yamagishi, 1994), would m...

We show that differences in social orientation and in cognition that exist between cultures and social classes do not necessarily have counterparts in individual differences within those groups. Evidence comes from a large-scale study conducted with 10 measures of independent vs. interdependent social orientation and 10 measures of analytic vs. holistic cognitive style. The social measures succ...