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others. Judgments are often biased by hindsight. Sixty-nine students were randomly assigned to
foresight or hindsight conditions and asked to make self-judgments about the answer to a
non-traditional hindsight task. Additionally, one-half the students in each condition made
judgments about Chinese or US students. Hindsight bias was noted for self but not other
judgments. Hindsight students asserted the answer was clearer and less surprising, and more
solvable than did foresight students (ps’ < .05). The impact of culture on hindsight bias deserves
further investigation.
4028.36 Study on inter-cultural frictions induced in Japanese-Chinese joint corporations, Aiping
Feng 1, 2 , 1 Tsukuba University, Japan; 2 Renmin University, China
This research attempts to calarify the developing factor of the inter-cultural communication
friction in Japanese-Chinese joint corporations. The Hypothesis is that inter-cultural
communication friction between Japanese managers and Chinese managers is generated due to the
difference on work attitudes and behavioral manners among them. Questionnaires were distributed
to 200 managers in Japanese-Chinese joint corporations in Shanghai, asking their views on
'cross-cultural self-cognition', 'inter-cultural cognition from each other' and 'psychological conflict
with inter-cultural communication'. The result showed that there is the cognitive difference
between both groups. However, it was not clear whether this difference prevents smooth
communication between them.
4028.37 The influence of culture on planning and prediction, Deanna Messervey, Li-Jun Ji,
Queen's University at Kingston, Canada
Previous research has found that people tend to underestimate when they will complete upcoming
assignments and tasks, despite knowing that similar tasks in the past have exceeded predicted
completion times. The present program of research explores whether this tendency to make overly
optimistic predictions can be found in other cultures. Canadian and Chinese participants were
asked to predict when they would complete an upcoming task. It was hypothesized that Chinese
participants would make less optimistically biased predictions than Canadians, especially when
Chinese participants were reminded of their past experiences. Results and implications of our
findings will be discussed.
4028.38 The research on the children’s senses of the parental role in dimensional level stage, Fu
Minghong 1 , Ren Xulin 2 , Li Peng 1 , 1 Yunnan Normal University, China; 2 Zhejiang University,
China
This research, based on R. Case’s process-structure theory, is on the senses of the parental role
among 265 children aged 4-10 of Han and Yi from Yunnan Province. The results show that Case’s
theory is challenged. Case’s theory about the level difference cross tasks in the same field has been
verified. There is regional difference in the children’s senses of parental role but no obvious ethnic
difference. At the age of 4 and 6, the girl’s development level is obviously higher than that of the
boy’s. But after the age of 8, both gender does not differ notably.
4028.39 The comparative research on metacognitive strategy using between Han and Tibetan
students, De Ying Gong, China
The research of 405 middle-school students in Tibet indicates that there is significant difference in
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