Individual Pride and Collective Pride: Differences Between Chinese and American Corpora

Frontiers in Psychology

Chuansheng Chen¹  Li Yuan²  Jing Li²  Conghui Liu²  Hanlin Wu²  Guoliang Yu³ 

[1]Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

[2]Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

[3]School of Education, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

关键词: corpora individual and collective pride;    Chinese;    American;    collective pride;    individual pride;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.513779

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This study investigated cross-cultural differences in individual pride and collective pride between Chinese and Americans using data from text corpora. We found higher absolute frequencies of pride items in the American corpus than in the Chinese corpus. Cross-cultural differences were found for relative frequencies of different types of pride, and some of them depended on the genre of the text corpora. For both blogs and news genres, Americans showed higher frequencies of individual pride items and lower frequencies of relational pride items than did their Chinese counterparts. Cross-cultural differences in national pride, however, depended on the genre: Chinese news genre included more national pride items than its American counterpart, but the opposite was true for the blog genre. We discuss the implications of these results in relation to the existing literature (based on surveys and laboratory-based experiments) on cultural differences in individual pride and collective pride.

【 授权许可】

CC BY