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Cultural Variation in In-group Bias among Chinese International Students
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Abstract
In-group bias may implicitly affect Chinese international students' social interaction, making it difficult to demonstrate its impact. Thus, this project investigates how in-group bias affects the interactions between Chinese international students and local students. Through a literature review, it is found that people are more likely to discriminate against out-group members than in-group members. To explore the impact of in-group bias, an experiment is designed to measure Chinese students' stress levels when they conduct self-introduction in front of other students. The participants will be divided into three groups with different Chinese to non-Chinese phantom ratios. The participants' stress levels will be assessed through their voice and facial expressions by trained coders. The expected result is that the participants' stress level decreases as the percentage of Chinese phantoms increases.
Keywords
In-group bias, Chinese international student, stress
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Politics and Socio-Humanities
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-359-3
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-360-9
- Published Date
- 19 April 2024
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7048
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7056
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7048/45/20230281
- Copyright
- 19 April 2024
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited