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Cultural mindsets shape what grounded procedures mean: Cleansing can separate or connect and separating can feel good or not so good

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2021

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Daphna Oyserman*
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Mind and Society Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. oyserman@usc.edu https://dornsife.usc.edu/daphna-oyserman
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Abstract

Are grounded procedures such as cleansing value-neutral main effects? Culture-as-situated-cognition theory suggests otherwise. Societies differ in how frequently they trigger membership and individualizing cultural mindsets and their linked mental-procedures – connecting and separating, respectively. Commonly triggered mindsets (and their linked mental-procedures) feel fluent. Fluency feels good. Cleansing can separate from but also connect to others in the form of membership-based rituals.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 44 , 2021 , e16
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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