Cross-Cultural Consistency and Relativity in the Enjoyment of Thinking Versus Doing

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2019-11-01

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Buttrick, Nicholas
Choi, Hyewon
Wilson, Timothy D.
Oishi, Shigehiro
Boker, Steven M.
Gilbert, Daniel T.
Alper, Sinan
Aveyard, Mark
Cheong, Winnee
Colic, Marija V.
Dalğar, İlker
DOĞULU, CANAY
KARABATI, SERDAR
Kim, Eunbee
Knezevic, Goran
Komiya, Asuka
Ordonez Lacle, Camila
Lage, Caio Ambrosio
Lazarevic, Ljiljana B.
Lazarevic, Dusanka
Lins, Samuel
Blanco Molina, Mauricio
Neto, Felix
Orlic, Ana
Petrovic, Boban
Arroyo Sibaja, Massiel
Torres Fernandez, David
Vanpaemel, Wolf
Voorspoels, Wouter
Wilks, Daniela C.

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Which is more enjoyable: trying to think enjoyable thoughts or doing everyday solitary activities? Wilson et al. (2014) found that American participants much preferred solitary everyday activities, such as reading or watching TV, to thinking for pleasure. To see whether this preference generalized outside of the United States, we replicated the study with 2,557 participants from 12 sites in 11 countries. The results were consistent in every country: Participants randomly assigned to do something reported significantly greater enjoyment than did participants randomly assigned to think for pleasure. Although we found systematic differences by country in how much participants enjoyed thinking for pleasure, we used a series of nested structural equation models to show that these differences were fully accounted for by country-level variation in 5 individual differences, 4 of which were positively correlated with thinking for pleasure (need for cognition, openness to experience, meditation experience, and initial positive affect) and 1 of which was negatively correlated (reported phone usage).

Subject Keywords

Thinking, Individual differences, Cultural differences, Replication

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30384

Journal

JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000198

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Article

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N. Buttrick et al., “Cross-Cultural Consistency and Relativity in the Enjoyment of Thinking Versus Doing,” JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 0–0, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30384.