Psychological Aspects of Social Axioms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Integrative Reviews and Basic Issues

   1. Introduction

      • Kwok Leung, Michael Harris Bond

      Pages 1-9

   2. The Mileage from Social Axioms: Learning from the Past and Looking Forward

      • Chin-Ming Hui, Heung-Hung Natalie Hui

      Pages 13-30

   3. Social Axioms and Organizational Behavior

      • Catherine T. Kwantes, Charlotte M. Karam

      Pages 31-50

   4. Structural Equivalence and Differential Item Functioning in the Social Axioms Survey

      • Fons J. R. Van de Vijver, Velichko H. Valchev, Irina Suanet

      Pages 51-80

   5. Exploring Ethnic Group and Geographic Differences in Social Axioms in the USA

      • Theodore M. Singelis, Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, William K. Gabrenya Jr., Michele Gelfand, Jake Harwood, Pa Her et al.

      Pages 81-93

   6. Social Axioms among Malay, Chinese, and Kadazan Students in Sabah, Malaysia: Differences in Gender and Ethnic Groups

      • Rosnah Ismail

      Pages 95-106

3. Transmission of Social Axioms

   1. Are Parents Decisive? The Intergenerational Transmission of Social Axioms Under Conditions of Rapid Social Change

      • Klaus Boehnke

      Pages 109-127

   2. Processes of Transmission and Change of Social Axioms and their Behavioral Influence in Spanish Culture

      • Luis Oceja

      Pages 129-141

4. Nomological Network of Social Axioms

   1. Linking Social Axioms with Behavioral Indicators and Personality in Romania

      • Margareta Dincă, Dragoş Iliescu

      Pages 145-162

   2. Exploring the Links between Social Axioms and the Epistemological Beliefs about Learning held by Filipino Students

      • Allan B. I. Bernardo

      Pages 163-175

   3. An Examination of Proactive Coping and Social Beliefs among Christians and Muslims

      • S. Safdar, J. R. Lewis, E. Greenglass, M. Daneshpour

      Pages 177-196

   4. Social Axioms in Greece: Etic and Emic Dimensions and their Relationships with Locus of Control

      • Aikaterini Gari, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Kostas Mylonas

      Pages 197-216

   5. Do General Beliefs Predict Specific Behavioral Intentions in Indonesia? The Role of Social Axioms within the Theory of Planned Behavior

      • Arief Darmanegara Liem, Sianiwati S. Hidayat, Sumiarti Soemarno

      Pages 217-238

   6. Cynicism in Love and in Politics

      • Paweł Boski, Monika Biłas-Henne, Joanna Wiȩckowska

      Pages 239-266

   7. Social Axioms in Italian Culture: Relationships with Locus of Control and Moral Development

      • Anna Laura Comunian

      Pages 269-282

   8. Social Axioms and Individualistic–Collectivist Orientations in Indian College Students

      • Anjali Ghosh

      Pages 283-292

   9. Explaining Individuating Behavior Across Cultures: The Contributions of Values and Social Axioms

      • Sylvia Xiaohua Chen

      Pages 293-315

5. Conclusion

   1. Believing in Beliefs: A Scientific but Personal Quest

      • Michael Harris Bond

      Pages 319-341

6. Back Matter

   Pages 343-348

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Humans are surrounded by trillions of stimuli. Their eyes, for instance, can discriminate 7,500,000 colors. But, there is a severe limitation in the number of discriminably different stimuli that they can process at one time. George Miller argued that they can handle no more than seven, plus or minus two independent pieces of information at any given time. Thus, necessarily they must develop ways to simplify the task of processing the information that exists in their environment. They do this in many ways. One way is to select the stimuli that are most imp- tant in their lives, what are often called values. Another way is to chunk stimuli by linking them to each other, so they form bundles of stimuli that can be processed as if they are one entity. Generalized expectancies of what is linked with what are beliefs, and these beliefs are structured into bundles (see Triandis, 1972).

• Ritual
• assessment
• behavioral intentions
• culture
• proactive coping
• processes of transmission
• structural equivalence
• transmission of axioms

• Department of Management, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, China

  Kwok Leung

• Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories, China

  Michael Harris Bond

Kwok Leung is professor and Head of Management at City University of Hong Kong. He received his doctorate in social and organizational psychology at the University of Illinois. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of International Business Studies and senior editor of Management and Organization Review. His research areas include justice and conflict, cross-cultural psychology and research methods, and international business.

Michael Harris Bond is Professor of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He graduated from Stanford University, where he began his study of person perception, subsequently broadened to include research into the areas of justice, aggression, and impression management.

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