Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

It is found that the concepts of interdependence and independence expressed in the measurement of self-consturals mayvary with cultural patterns, which also affects the strength of social norm. Therefore, in this study, we mainly focused onexploring the effect of social norm on self-construals. Participants who grew up in Taiwan were asked to complete thequestionnaire of tightness and looseness attitude regarding daily life and to proceed the of norm violation task. As a result,we concluded that cultural pattern of tightness or looseness is related to the strength of social norm. Interestingly thefinding indicated that strong norm would relate to detecting greater freedom, which leads to higher creativity. In addition,the perception of the tightness of culture would be more related to interdependent self-constural and nation identification.