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Switching: Cultural fluency sustains and cultural disfluency disrupts thinking fast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2023

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Daphna Oyserman*
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Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA oyserman@usc.edu https://dornsife.usc.edu/daphna-oyserman/
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Abstract

Culture-as-situated cognition theory provides insight into the system 1 monitoring algorithm. Culture provides people with an organizing framework, facilitating predictions, focusing attention, and providing experiential signals of certainty and uncertainty as system 1 inputs. When culture-based signals convey that something is amiss, system 2 reasoning is triggered and engaged when resources allow; otherwise, system 1 reasoning dominates.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e136
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