ABSTRACT Bicultural individuals who blend their two cultures and identities (i.e., subscribe to a mixed culture) may assume that other bicultural individuals blend their cultures and identities too. Here, we introduce the concept and assessment of implicit biculturalism theories: beliefs about how two cultures reside within one individual. We hypothesized that bicultural individuals would perceive and think about others’ biculturalism based on how they organize and structure their own two cultures and identities (i.e., cultural blendedness). Taking a person-specific (rather than variable-centered) approach, we examined the associations among variables within each of 54 Asian Americans who completed the Role Construct Repertory Test and subjected the data to multiple-group confirmatory components analysis, conducted for each participant. We found that bicultural identity and person perception are linked: Participants with higher levels of cultural blendedness expressed the implicit biculturalism theory that cultures are also blended for other people. This suggests that bicultural individuals engage in egocentric processes to perceive others and interpret their biculturalism. These findings may have implications for social interactions, such that implicit biculturalism theories may affect how perceivers act toward targets, the targets’ reciprocal perceptions of the perceivers, and their subsequent relationship.

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内隐双文化主义理论：双文化个体如何看待他人和组织自己的文化

摘要 融合了两种文化和身份的双文化个体（即认同混合文化）可能会假设其他双文化个体也融合了他们的文化和身份。在这里，我们介绍了隐含双文化主义理论的概念和评估：关于两种文化如何存在于一个人体内的信念。我们假设双文化个体会根据他们如何组织和构建自己的两种文化和身份（即文化融合）来感知和思考他人的双文化。采取针对个人（而不是以变量为中心）的方法，我们检查了 54 名完成角色构建库测试的亚裔美国人中的每一个变量之间的关联，并对数据进行多组验证性成分分析，为每个参与者进行。我们发现双文化认同和人的感知是相关的：文化融合程度较高的参与者表达了隐含的双文化主义理论，即文化也为其他人而融合。这表明双文化个体参与以自我为中心的过程来感知他人并解释他们的双文化。这些发现可能对社会互动有影响，例如内隐的双文化主义理论可能会影响感知者对目标的行为、目标对感知者的相互感知以及他们随后的关系。这表明双文化个体参与以自我为中心的过程来感知他人并解释他们的双文化。这些发现可能对社会互动有影响，例如内隐的双文化主义理论可能会影响感知者对目标的行为、目标对感知者的相互感知以及他们随后的关系。这表明双文化个体参与以自我为中心的过程来感知他人并解释他们的双文化。这些发现可能对社会互动有影响，例如内隐的双文化主义理论可能会影响感知者对目标的行为、目标对感知者的相互感知以及他们随后的关系。