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This study explores whether minority group members with multicultural experiences tend to process information locally. To Experiment 1 and Experiment 2, some Chinese Uyghur college students were exposed to multicultural priming (Han-Uyghur culture) and some to mono-cultural priming (Uyghur culture only). The results of the experiment indicated that the multicultural priming group responded more quickly to local letters than mono-cultural priming group (Experiment 1) and were inclined to find out differences between objects (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 excluded the possibility that the results of experiments 1 and 2 were caused by the minority group’s inherent tendency to process information locally. These findings indicate that minority group members with multicultural experiences tend to process information locally.
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This research is supported by the Foundation for Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province (21JR7RA139), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31760282).
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Li, J., Shi, K., Guo, H. et al. Global or local processing: relationship between multicultural experiences and information processing of minority group members. Curr Psychol 43, 3021–3028 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04541-0
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