Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023)

Cultural Variation in Perceiving Competition

Authors
Tiansi Yang1, *
1College of Arts and Science, New York University, New York, 10003, USA
*Corresponding author. Email: ty1175@nyu.edu
Corresponding Author
Tiansi Yang
Available Online 9 September 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_24How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Cooperation; Cultural Difference; Competition
Abstract

This study focused on the investigation of the influence of cultural differences on group behaviors in an academic setting. Under a highly competitive environment and facing limited social resources, people would be inclined to perceive competitiveness and make more competitive decisions despite their cultural differences. We investigated Chinese students - facing limited resources and being exposed to a highly competitive environment - and American students’ perceptions and decision-making in an academic environment. The paper hypothesized that as compared to their American counterparts, Chinese students would be more inclined to perceive competitiveness and make less cooperative decisions. As we predicted, data analysis showed that Chinese students indeed reported higher perceived competitiveness, which supported our hypothesis that when competing for limited social resources, people would be embedded with a stronger sense of competition and intend to make more competitive decisions.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
9 September 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_24
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-092-3_24How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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DA  - 2023/09/09
TI  - Cultural Variation in Perceiving Competition
BT  - Proceedings of the 2023 9th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2023)
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