Differences in conceptual structures of nations: An exploratory study.

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Explored the ways different people conceive of nations, the conditions which give rise to different conceptions of nations. Primary attention is focused on a task in which 75 students from 8 countries, but all studying at a university in the United States, gave pairwise ratings of overall similarity with respect to a set of 21 nations. An INDSCAL analysis, a multidimensional scaling procedure developed by J. D. Carroll and J. J. Chang, of the similarities data revealed 4 dimensions which were interpreted as: political alignment and ideology, economic development, geography and population, and culture and race. Economic development was more important than political alignment to doves, males, and Ss from developed countries, whereas the opposite was true for nondoves, females, and Ss from underdeveloped countries. Differences in the Ss' conceptions of nations appeared to be of degree rather than kind. (32 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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