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Chiu, Chi-Yue Chiu, Chi-Yue Wyer, Robert S., Jr. Cohen, Dov Vargas, Patrick T. Yang, Yung-Jui 2012-02-06T20:07:59Z 2012-02-06T20:07:59Z 2011-12 2012-02-06T20:07:59Z 2011-12 Facing the increasingly intensified interactions between cultures, why do people sometimes react to foreign cultural influence in a negative way? Three critical conditions were proposed to account for people’s negative reactions toward intrusion of a foreign element into the sacred space of the local community. These three conditions are (a) perceptions of the foreign element as a symbol of the culture it belongs to; (b) the foreign element is perceived to have intruded into the physical space of the local community; and (c) the local space is widely regarded by the local community with reverence and respect. Experiments 1 to 3 tested this proposed framework in different intercultural contexts: Chinese’s responses to the opening of a new McDonald’s shop at the Great Wall of China (Experiment 1); Americans’ responses to an image of Mao Zedong superimposed on that of the Statue of Liberty (Experiment 2); and Americans’ responses to the construction of a Muslim Mosque near Ground Zero in New York City (Experiment 3). The results from these three experiments supported the proposed model. Two additional experiments (Experiments 4 and 5) explored other bases of resistance to spatial intrusions of a foreign element. Results from these additional experiments showed that when cultural intrusions occur in a foreign country or in a competitive political outgroup, individuals may be motivated by culture preservation values, or by political ideology to resist or welcome these intrusions. I close with a discussion on the implications of the results for managing intercultural relations and future research. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-11-17T18:57:11Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Yang_Yung-Yang.docx: 776143 bytes, checksum: 41695c866d7a1b225ba67cdcf65ca427 (MD5) Yang_Yung-Yang.pdf: 1467464 bytes, checksum: c568178aa75a8c59a02c7e90d487a5e1 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-02-06T20:07:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Yang_Yung-Jui.pdf: 1468107 bytes, checksum: fb43caecdfca38c021d1a76b6357d4a1 (MD5) license.txt: 4057 bytes, checksum: 7e25d910f8bc82b44b42855303a422ec (MD5) Yang_Yung-Jui.docx: 776581 bytes, checksum: 3bcae1242cbcde0df6247c34d5f2f102 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/29633 en Copyright 2011 Yung-Jui Yang intercultural relations cultural symbolism spatial intrusion Clashes of civilizations: critical conditions for evocation of hostile attitude toward foreign intrusion of cultural space Dissertation / Thesis text 0338 Psychology 1299 Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Psychology -UIUC 10KS0338PHD