What i Know in my mind and Where my Heart Belongs: Multicultural Identity Negotiation and its Cognitive Consequences

The Psychology of Social and Cultural Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 115-144

  Tadmor, Carmit T ^a   Hong, Ying yi ^b   Chiu, Chi Yue ^b   No, Sun ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation complexity model; Factors affecting multicultural identity management; Failure to differentiate between multicultural mind and multicultural self; Immigrants to other countries job opportunities, hopes of personal and professional development failing; Intercultural competence discovering, adjusting, and integrating new attitudes and values from foreign cultures; Multicultural experience, incidents of racial tension, prejudice and intergroup violence in multicultural societies; Multicultural identity negotiation and its cognitive consequences; Multicultural mind application and multicultural knowledge benefits; Multicultural self patterns of cultural identification; Social intervention and policy implications

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952410968     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444325447.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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