Increasing Individualism and Collectivism

Yale-NUS College

Status: Completed

Conditions: Individual Difference

Treatments: Other: Online prime (all); Other: Online prime (statements writing); Other: Online prime (circling); Other: Online prime (Sumarian Warrior)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03429725

HSS-1502-P02-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

An online survey is conducted on MTurk populations from India and USA. Participants were assigned either a condition with primes of individualism or one with primes of collectivism, before responding to a scale on culture and indicating details of their demographics.

Enrollment: 495 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• above age 21

Exclusion criteria

• below age 21
• not able to make decisions for self

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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495 participants in 2 patient groups

Individualism

Experimental group

Description:

Participant will be randomly allocated to either the individualism condition or the collectivism condition. For individualism condition, participant is tasked to write statements relating to his/her differences from the his/her immediate community, circle pronouns that relate to the self, and read passages related to individualism.

Treatment:

Other: Online prime (circling)

Other: Online prime (all)

Other: Online prime (Sumarian Warrior)

Other: Online prime (statements writing)

Collectivism

Experimental group

Description:

Participant will be randomly allocated to either the individualism condition or the collectivism condition. For collectivism condition, participant is tasked to write statements relating to his/her similarities to the his/her immediate community, circle collective pronouns, and read passages related to collectivism.

Treatment:

Other: Online prime (circling)

Other: Online prime (all)

Other: Online prime (Sumarian Warrior)

Other: Online prime (statements writing)