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Hazel Markus on Self and Culture
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Overview
In this segment, Hazel Markus explains how she became interested in her field of research, the self and culture.

Web Connections
Article by Markus and Kitayama, "Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition, Emotion, and Motivation"
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/honors130/culture.html

Article on the contrast between United States and Chinese memories and self-concept
http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/01/6.28.01/memory-culture.html



Pre-Test



1How do Americans tend to view the self and the individual?


2How do non-Western cultures view the self and the individual?


3What problems might this cause an American who is lecturing about self-concept to Japanese students?

Post-Test



4Japanese students did not respond to Markus' questions when she lectured on self-concept because her lecture addressed what Americans do, not what Japanese do.
A)True
B)False


5Markus realized that her lectures on self-concept covered only a partial view, that other cultures view the self differently.
A)True
B)False





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