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A Cross-Cultural Study of the Perception of Situational Causality

University of Georgia; psychologist in Carrollton, Ga.

E. P. Torrance

University of Georgia

Timothy S. Walker

University of Georgia;West Georgia College, Carrollton, Ga.

This study was designed to test developmental, cross-cultural, and sex differences in the perception of situational causality. Three hundred fifty-nine (359) Ss were divided by grade (third and sixth), culture (United States and Indian), and sex. It was hypothesized that developmental, cross-cultural, and sex differences would be found in the perception of situational causality. Ss were shown a picture depicting a Mother Goose nursery rhyme and were asked what might have caused the action shown in the picture. Responses were categorized as Causal, Phenomenistic, Consequential, Descriptive, or Other. Means were computed for each group and category and hypothesized differences were tested by means of the Student's t test. All cross-cultural differences were significant and developmental differences were found to be significant for United States children but not for children in the Indian culture.

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 4, 401-404 (1971)
DOI: 10.1177/002202217100200411


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