Varieties of cognitive integration.

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Studied 4 styles of cognitive integration (affective balance, affective-evaluative consistency, centralization, and image comparability) within 4 domains of cognition (acquaintances, family, nations, and self) among 554 university students in 3 countries (United States, Japan, and New Zealand). In all 3 countries, the tendency to use one or another integrative style depended both on the cognitive domain and on other structural properties of the Ss' cognitive systems. Affective balance tended to be a preferred style within the domain of family relations and among Ss with simple, highly evaluative, and univalent conceptions of objects. Image comparability tended to be a preferred integrative style within the domains of nations and acquaintances and among Ss with many independent precisely discriminating attributes for appraising objects. (35 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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