Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144487
Title: Metacognition fosters cultural learning : evidence from individual differences and situational prompts.
Authors: Morris, Michael W.
Savani, Krishna
Fincher, Katrina
Keywords: Business::Management
Issue Date: 2019
Source: Morris, M. W., Savani, K., & Fincher, K. (2019). Metacognition fosters cultural learning : evidence from individual differences and situational prompts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes, 116(1), 46-68. doi:10.1037/pspi0000149
Journal: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes
Abstract: We investigated the role of metacognition in the process by which people learn new cultural norms from experiential feedback. In a lab paradigm, participants received many trials of simulated interpersonal situations in a new culture, each of which required them to make a choice, and then provided them with evaluative feedback about the accuracy of their choice with regard to local norms. Studies 1 to 3 found that participants higher on an individual difference dimension of metacognitive proclivity learned to adhere to the local norms faster. This relationship held up in simple and complex situations, that is, when the feedback was noisy rather than completely reliable, and it also held up when possibly confounding individual differences were controlled (Study 2). Further evidence suggested that the underlying mechanism is the largely implicit process of error monitoring and reactive error-based updating. A measure of surprise (an indicator of error monitoring) mediated the link between metacognitive proclivity and faster learning (Study 3). In experiments that varied the task so as to afford different kinds of metacognitive processing, participants learned faster with posterror prompts but not with postaccuracy prompts (Study 4). Further, they learned faster with nondirected prompts that merely provided a break for processing rather with prompts that directly instructed them to reason explicitly (Study 5). We discuss the implications of these findings for models of culture, first- and second-culture learning, and for training and selecting people for foreign or intercultural roles.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144487
ISSN: 0022-3514
DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000149
Schools: Nanyang Business School 
Rights: © American Psychological Association, 2019. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: 10.1037/pspi0000149
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