Culture and personality revisited: Behavioral profiles and within‐person stability in interdependent (vs. independent) social orientation and holistic (vs. analytic) cognitive style

Objective We test the proposition that both social orientation and cognitive style are constructs consisting of loosely related attributes. Thus, measures of each construct should weakly correlate among themselves, forming intraindividually stable profiles across measures over time. Method Study 1 tested diverse samples of Americans ( N = 233) and Japanese ( N = 433) with a wide range of measures of social orientation and cognitive style to...