This result suggests that differences in construal between morals and values can have an impact on dehumanisation.
However, cultural differences in construals of face, and in the norms linked to kinds of social relationship typical in a particular society ensure, that exactly what it is polite to say in a particular context may vary across cultures, providing a recurrent potential source of cross-cultural misunderstandings.
What separates Nozick from Rawls at this very basic level is a difference in their construal of the implications of this common critique.
Moreover, while some studies have shown that individual differences in self-construal moderate cultural group comparisons, few have examined self-construal differences separate to culture.
The current study examined how cultural differences in self-construal affect one's implicit self-processing in different social contexts.
These findings suggest that individual differences in self-construal may be an important organizing framework facilitating perceptual processes to emotionally salient social cues, beyond the boundary of cultural group comparisons.
Cultural differences in self-construals also affect relationships in work environments, where individuals must navigate complex social hierarchies.
The fact that gender differences in self-construals have been found to be contextually dependent and variable [43] may explain why gender differences have not been reliably found in past studies.
Moreover, given the findings about the effect of language on construal, it is plausible that this learning is also shaped in childhood through socialization processes, with primary caregivers' language use encouraging adaptive shifts in construal.
Although differences in individuals' self-construal were found between both countries, they did not affect the magnitude of modelling effects on eating.
In Study 4, we demonstrate that the difference in extreme responding can partly explain a well-established self-construal effect, and we offer a solution to control for the bias in extreme responding in self-construal research.
